Re: setting up IPv6 addresses in rc.conf?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:24:48 -0600
eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen) wrote:

> 
> Greg Troxel writes:
> ->   Is it possible to specify more than one interface address solely
> in ->   rc.conf via ifconfig_xxN variables?  I don't see a way to do
> it.
> - 
> - The basic problem seems to be that one wants multiple invocations of
> - ifconfig, with different values.  With files, you just have multiple
> - lines.  So either we need line breaks in the string, or
> - 
> - ifconfig_de0_0="inet 1.2.3.4/8"
> - ifconfig_de0_1="inet6 2001:2:3::4"
> - ifconfig_de0_2=....
> 
> Um, this may sound silly or basic, but I do the following:
> 
>       ifconfig_de0="inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 0xffff0000"
>       ifconfig_de0="${ifconfig_de0} inet6 2001:2:3::4"
> 

Hmm -- when I tried more or less that, I got a message saying that I
couldn't add two addresses to a non-point-to-point interface.  I'll try
it again.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb