Re: [gentoo-dev] IPv6 support in network initscripts

[Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:13:11PM -0700, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> there's something which occurs to me -- in /etc/rc.conf there is a way to specify which protocols you allow.  Do our net scripts already have ipv6 support, I wonder? or is that stuff in rc.conf for some other purpose?
> 
I've never seen anything which actually sources rc.conf and uses the
PROTOCOL variable in any way. I have no idea why that's there. anybody
enlighten me?

Our current scripts (in the stable baselayout, not sure about ~arch)
lets you specify inet6_ethX in the /etc/conf.d/net file, and adds that
alias to the device. In reality, there are three different ways to
configure the IPv6 attributes of a device. First, you can configure
everything by hand. Setting an IP, default route, etc. IPv6 also
specificies the existance of autoconfiguration via "Router
Advertisement." This is basically a stateless, automatic "DHCP-like"
configuration. Thirdly, there is specification for a stateful
configuration using DHCPv6.


Our initscript *should* be made to account for all of these
possiblities. Doing this well might get a little messy though.

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