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Author: Antonio Borneo
Date: Sat Jan 14 08:56:28 2012
New Revision: 502

Log:
Manually assign link-local IPv6 addresses on Solaris

Solaris 11 *really* wants the interface to have a link-local address, and
doesn't add one automatically.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Modified:
branches/vpnc-nortel/vpnc-script
trunk/vpnc-script

Modified: branches/vpnc-nortel/vpnc-script
==============================================================================
--- branches/vpnc-nortel/vpnc-script (original)
+++ branches/vpnc-nortel/vpnc-script Sat Jan 14 08:56:28 2012
@@ -72,18 +72,10 @@
route_syntax_del="delete"
route_syntax_netmask="-netmask"
fi
-# Only Solaris needs 'plumb', and only Solaris needs to be given a dest_address
-# for the IPv6. At least, OpenVPN doesn't do it for anything but Solaris, and
-# OpenBSD is definitely *not* happy if given a dest_address that matches the
-# local address.
if [ "$OS" = "SunOS" ]; then
route_syntax_interface="-interface"
- route_syntax_plumb="plumb"
- ifconfig_syntax_ptpv6="$INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS"
else
route_syntax_interface=""
- route_syntax_plumb=""
- ifconfig_syntax_ptpv6=""
fi

if [ -x /sbin/resolvconf ]; then # Optional tool on Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo
@@ -134,7 +126,18 @@
if [ -n "$IPROUTE" ]; then
$IPROUTE -6 addr add $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK dev $TUNDEV
else
- ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 $route_syntax_plumb $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK $ifconfig_syntax_ptpv6 mtu $MTU up
+ if [ "$OS" = "SunOS" ]; then
+ # Solaris 11 needs link-local addrs to be assigned manually
+ ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 plumb fe80::1 fe80::2 mtu $MTU up
+ ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 addif $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK $INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS up
+ else
+ # Unlike for Legacy IP, we don't specify the dest_address
+ # here on *BSD. OpenBSD for one will refuse to accept
+ # incoming packets to that address if we do.
+ # OpenVPN does the same (gives dest_address for Legacy IP
+ # but not for IPv6)
+ ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK mtu $MTU up
+ fi
fi
fi
}

Modified: trunk/vpnc-script
==============================================================================
--- trunk/vpnc-script (original)
+++ trunk/vpnc-script Sat Jan 14 08:56:28 2012
@@ -72,18 +72,10 @@
route_syntax_del="delete"
route_syntax_netmask="-netmask"
fi
-# Only Solaris needs 'plumb', and only Solaris needs to be given a dest_address
-# for the IPv6. At least, OpenVPN doesn't do it for anything but Solaris, and
-# OpenBSD is definitely *not* happy if given a dest_address that matches the
-# local address.
if [ "$OS" = "SunOS" ]; then
route_syntax_interface="-interface"
- route_syntax_plumb="plumb"
- ifconfig_syntax_ptpv6="$INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS"
else
route_syntax_interface=""
- route_syntax_plumb=""
- ifconfig_syntax_ptpv6=""
fi

if [ -x /sbin/resolvconf ]; then # Optional tool on Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo
@@ -134,7 +126,18 @@
if [ -n "$IPROUTE" ]; then
$IPROUTE -6 addr add $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK dev $TUNDEV
else
- ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 $route_syntax_plumb $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK $ifconfig_syntax_ptpv6 mtu $MTU up
+ if [ "$OS" = "SunOS" ]; then
+ # Solaris 11 needs link-local addrs to be assigned manually
+ ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 plumb fe80::1 fe80::2 mtu $MTU up
+ ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 addif $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK $INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS up
+ else
+ # Unlike for Legacy IP, we don't specify the dest_address
+ # here on *BSD. OpenBSD for one will refuse to accept
+ # incoming packets to that address if we do.
+ # OpenVPN does the same (gives dest_address for Legacy IP
+ # but not for IPv6)
+ ifconfig "$TUNDEV" inet6 $INTERNAL_IP6_NETMASK mtu $MTU up
+ fi
fi
fi
}

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