Re: ipv6

On 02/03/2014 12:08, Gil André wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 01 Mar 2014, at 17:00, Andreas Vögele <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Nick Edwards <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> [...] This is not for home use, I have them assigned by editing
>>> rc.inet1 which we know, we should never do since it will be overwrote
>>> every update
>> rc.inet1 and rc.wireless are both marked as configuration files and
>> won't be overwritten by default.  Furthermore, there's no need to
>> install the wireless-tools package, which provides the regular
>> rc.wireless script, on servers.  Just create your own script of that
>> name and it will never be touched by any package management tool.
> Sticking IPv6 in rc.wireless, even if said file is never overwritten
> by upgrading tools, and even if it is not needed on a server-class
> machine, strikes me as a pretty poor hack. Useful, yes, but definitely
> not a clean solution.
>
> I tend to agree with Nick & Noel here: what is needed is either a set
> of IPV6-specific rc scripts or (even better) integration of IPv6 functions
> in the standard rc.inet1 scripts.
>
> — Gil.
>

Hi,

I would replace the ip_up function of Noel's rc.ipv6 script with 
something like:

files=/etc/rc.d/rc.ipv6conf/*.conf
for f in $files; do
   if [ -f "$f" ]; then
    source $f
   /usr/sbin/ip addr add $sub_ip dev $intf
   /usr/sbin/ip addr add $pri_ip dev $intf
  fi
done

So for /etc/rc.d/rc.ipv6conf/darkstar.conf:

# IPv6 Config file for darkstar.org, create a new one using this 
template for your IP address or hostname
# Your interface, such as eth0
intf=eth0
# Sub IP v6 address
sub_ip=2001:xxxxxxxxxx:7/64
# Primary IPv6 address
pri_ip=2001:xxxxxxxxxx:dba/64

darkstar.conf (with its variables commented out) could be used as a 
dummy file that can be installed and upgraded without affecting the real 
config files you create for your IP addresses in that folder.

Best,

John