IPv6 address persistent configuration thru ifconfig

2008-01-22 Thread Prabhu Hariharan
Hi, In host implementation, if I manually configure global ipv6 address via ifconfig command then those addresses are not persistent after making the interface DOWN and again UP, which is not the case for IPv4 addresses. Is this an intentional behavior that all ipv6 address needs to be removed

Re: IPv6 address persistent configuration thru ifconfig

2008-01-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In host implementation, if I manually configure global ipv6 address via ifconfig command then those addresses are not persistent after making the interface DOWN and again UP, which is not the case for IPv4 addresses. Is this an intentional behavior that all ipv6 address needs to be removed from

Re: IPv6 address persistent configuration thru ifconfig

2008-01-22 Thread Prabhu Hariharan
Is this behavior exists from the beginning of KAME integration or available in latest freebsd code? Because I was using a box which derives its ipv6 code from KAME project and the behavior was different from this. Also, in a host which uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update