IPv6: can a link-site (or global) address be configured in rc.conf?

[Eugene M. Kim]

(Cc'ed to the 6BONE mailing list in the hope that someone there could
answer my question as well)

Speaking of the address allocation, is there a way for an individual to
get a non-local address space (so that all of my machines can get an
unique IPv6 address)?  I've read through the 6BONE website, and it seems
to me that I somehow have to `qualify' in order to get one.  (And the
fact that I just need <10 addresses makes me feel guilty; AFAIK the
minimum allocation unit is 2^64-address block :-p.)

Thank you in advance,
Eugene

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Bill Fenner wrote:

| Bruce is right that machines expect to learn their prefixes from their
| local router; however if you're just playing around you might want to
| set it yourself.  The easiest way I've found to do this is to say that
| this machine is a router:
| 
| # sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
| net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 -> 1
| 
| and then run "prefix" to set a site-local prefix:
| 
| # prefix dc0 fec0:0:0:1::
| # ifconfig dc0
| dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
|         inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe36:7410%dc0 prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x1
|         inet6 fec0::1:2a0:ccff:fe36:7410 prefixlen 64 
| 
| Of course, if you have global address space too you can assign that prefix
| too.
| 
|   Bill

-- 
Eugene M. Kim <ab@astralblue.com>

"Is your music unpopular?  Make it popular; make music
which people like, or make people who like your music."