Netif

I recently got IPv6 running at home, with most devices including my iPhone happily get an IPv6 assigned. My NAS running FreeBSD13.2 currently only has an IPv4 assigned, so I’m going to configure IPv6 for it too. I’m still new to IPv6. The way I have it setup on my router, running OPNsense, is to set the “Router Advertisements” to “Unmanaged” with DHCPv6 disabled. “Unmanaged” for SLAAC (A flag), and SLAAC stands for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. In simple term, each client will pick its own IPv6 based on the route prefix advertised by the router. This is just a simplification, and you should not quote for me this. ...

A quick note for me to remind myself how to stop/start network service on FreeBSD (13.0). To stop or start, run one of the following commands: # service netif stop # service netif start To restart, just replace stop or start with restart: # service netif restart I also just found out that the above commands will nto restarting the routing service, as they only stop/start/restart network. To restart the routing service on FreeBSD, run: ...