Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@dingo.ping.net.au> writes:

> The system in question is intended to act as a router for the
> local network. The interfaces are configure utilizing
> ifconfig.de0 and ifconfig.gif0. rc.conf is configured with the
> following options:
> 
> defaultroute6="3ffe:8000:ffff:1021::100" 
> ip6mode=router

That's no surprise; if you have a look at /etc/rc.d/network you'll see
that a node designated `router' won't accept Router Advertisements ...

> rtsol=No

... and actually it doesn't even solicit them (even if you had set
that switch to YES).  All this is intentional.

> The same setup without defaultroute6 defined didn't work. The link
> only came alive after explicit declaration of the defaultroute6.

So what's wrong about putting that route(8) invocation into the
particular interface's configuration file?


- Klaus