Re: IPv6 configuration in rc.d

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Barton
Hiroki, Throughout your post you are *theorizing* about what you *think* will happen. You obviously missed the parts of my post(s) where I said I actually tested it. BEFORE you make any changes to the existing code you need to do some actual testing, publish your methods and results, make a persu

Re: IPv6 configuration in rc.d

2010-04-23 Thread Hiroki Sato
Doug Barton wrote in <4bcb6a14.5040...@freebsd.org>: do> > # ifconfig gif0 create do> > # ifconfig gif0 up do> do> Your statement is literally true, in this case the network.subr stuff do> "has no control" because it isn't run. That was the same for the old do> code as it is for the new code.

Re: IPv6 configuration in rc.d

2010-04-18 Thread Doug Barton
Now we're getting somewhere. :) On 04/18/10 12:04, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Doug Barton wrote > in <4bca2b55.9000...@freebsd.org>: > > do> > I strongly disagree with this because some IPv6 > do> > applications depend on link-local address automatically added on > do> > cloned interfaces > do> >

Re: IPv6 configuration in rc.d

2010-04-18 Thread Hiroki Sato
Doug Barton wrote in <4bca2b55.9000...@freebsd.org>: do> > I strongly disagree with this because some IPv6 do> > applications depend on link-local address automatically added on do> > cloned interfaces do> do> Can you please give a configuration example that would create the do> scenario you

IPv6 configuration in rc.d (Was: Re: svn commit: r206408 ...)

2010-04-17 Thread Doug Barton
To add a little history to the discussion: In June of last year you posted a patch to the -rc list to update our treatment of IPv6 configuration in rc.d and bring it on par with how we configure IPv4. At the time I did not give your patch adequate review, and subsequent to it being committed a