IPv6 Link Local Addresses

2012-10-12 Thread Doug Hardie
With FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 you can assign the same link local address manually to two different hosts on the same network. The Neighbor Solicitations are not responded to and you end up with non-working addresses. The simple way to reproduce this is to boot two systems on the same network and get

Creation of IPv6 link-local addresses

2006-10-12 Thread Trond Endrestøl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Questions regarding IPv6 may not belong here, but I take my chances anyway. Subsection 5.3 of RFC 2462 states that: ``A node forms a link-local address whenever an interface becomes enabled [...]'' One of the events listed in

Re: Creation of IPv6 link-local addresses

2006-10-12 Thread Trond Endrestøl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:12+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote: Second, the link-layer address is not recreated when I do an ^^ Sorry, I meant the link-local address. Can I set additional link-local addresses on the vlan interfaces