Re: autoconfiguring inet6 with ifup/down

[Joost Witteveen <joostje@iliana.nl>]

Sami Haahtinen wrote:

> I think
> ifupdown should have an inet6 autoconf method that would just bring up
> the interface.
The following patch to the ifupdown source does just that. Would it be 
OK to send this patch upstream?

diff -u -r ifupdown-0.6.7/inet6.defn ifupdown-0.6.7-autoconf/inet6.defn
--- ifupdown-0.6.7/inet6.defn   2005-05-02 15:58:08.000000000 +0200
+++ ifupdown-0.6.7-autoconf/inet6.defn  2005-05-14 16:12:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@
  down
    ifconfig %iface% down

+
+method autoconf
+  description
+    This method may be used to autoconfigure IPv6 interfaces, using
+    Router Advertisement messages.
+  up
+    ifconfig %iface% up
+  down
+    ifconfig %iface% down
+
+
method v4tunnel
  description
    This method may be used to setup an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel. It requires




This now works OK with the following interfaces file:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet6 autoconf


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