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Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:59:16 +0100 (CET)
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, sthaug () nethelp no wrote:
This does not seem to be generally true: - For the routers I am most familiar with (Juniper M/MX), you need to explicitly turn on router advertisement to make the router perform this. I.e. it is perfectly possible to have an interface with an IPv6 address which does *not* send RAs.
Cisco routers do send RA by default as soon as IPv6 is enabled on the interface.
- For the operating system I am most familiar with (FreeBSD), RAs are *not* accepted by default if the interface in question is configured with a static IPv6 address.
Linux (at least Debian/Ubuntu kernels) will accept RAs by default even if you set a static IPv6 address. To stop it you have to do:
sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=0 -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)], (continued)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Bjørn Mork (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Matthew Kaufman (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems sthaug (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Jack Bates (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems David W. Hankins (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Jack Bates (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems David W. Hankins (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Nathan Ward (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems sthaug (Feb 07)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Mikael Abrahamsson (Feb 07)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 08)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems David W. Hankins (Feb 07)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 09)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Owen DeLong (Feb 06)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 07)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 07)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems James R. Cutler (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] David W. Hankins (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Ricky Beam (Feb 05)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 06)