Is configuring these things through nwam not the /proper/ way to do things? I don't understand why all the help pages say to disable nwam for static IP configuration.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 15:58, James Carlson <[email protected]>wrote: > russell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have configured my OI_151 installation with a static IPv4 address and > > would like to configure IPv6 to work with DHCP but the notes I've found > > appear to require nwam to be running but I have disabled this. > > Might be helpful to provide a link or a copy of those notes. They don't > sound accurate. > > > I would appreciate a suggestion on how to configure OI manually to only > > use DHCP for IPv6. I would like to have the IPv6 use both SLAAC and a > > DHCPv6 server. > > The standards-compliant way to do this is to plumb up one or more IPv6 > interfaces and make sure that svc:/network/routing/ndp:default is enabled. > > When you do that, in.ndpd(1M), the IPv6 autoconfiguration daemon, will > run. That daemon will listen to ICMPv6 Router Advertisement messages. > If the messages say that a given prefix uses DHCPv6, then it will > automatically start dhcpagent(1M), and that will configure the address. > (Unlike DHCPv4, the prefix length -- aka "subnet" -- comes from the RA, > not from the DHCP server. Only the address itself comes from DHCP. > It's how DHCPv4 should have been done ...) > > If you have one or more IPv6 routers, and they all say that you > shouldn't run DHCPv6 on a prefix, then it will not be run. If you have > no IPv6 routers (a bit of a degenerate case in the standards), then > DHCPv6 is required to run, and the system will run it, but it's almost > completely useless. > > See in.ndpd(1M), dhcpagent(1M), and ifconfig(1M) for details. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Seconds to the drop, but it seems like hours. http://www.eff.org/ <http://www.eff.org/>http://creativecommons.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
