Improve the handling of IPv6 configuration in rc.d. The ipv6_enable

and ipv6_ifconfig_<interface> options have already been deprecated,
these changes do not alter that.

With these changes any value set for ipv6_enable will emit a
warning. In order to avoid a POLA violation for the deprecation
of the option ipv6_enable=NO will still disable configuration
for all interfaces other than lo0. ipv6_enable=YES will not have
any effect, but will emit an additional warning. Support and
warnings for this option will be removed in FreeBSD 10.x.

Consistent with the current code, in order for IPv6 to be configured
on an interface (other than lo0) an ifconfig_<interface>_ipv6
option will have to be added to /etc/rc.conf[.local].

1. Clean up and minor optimizations for the following functions:
ifconfig_up (the ipv6 elements)
ipv6if
ipv6_autoconfif
get_if_var
_ifconfig_getargs
The cleanups generally were to move the "easy" tests earlier in the
functions, and consolidate duplicate code.

2. Stop overloading ipv6_prefer with the ability to disable IPv6
configuration.

3. Remove noafif() which was only ever called from ipv6_autoconfif.
Instead, simplify and integrate the tests into that function, and
convert the test to use is_wired_interface() instead of listing
wireless interfaces explicitly.

4. Integrate backwards compatibility for ipv6_ifconfig_<interface>
into _ifconfig_getargs. This dramatically simplifies the code in
all of the callers, and avoids a lot of other code duplication.

5. In rc.d/netoptions, add code for an ipv6_privacy option to use
RFC 4193 style pseudo-random addresses (this is what windows does
by default, FYI).

6. Add support for the [NO]RTADV options in ifconfig_getargs() and
ipv6_autoconfif(). In the latter, include support for the explicit
addition of [-]accept_rtadv in ifconfig_<interface>_ipv6 as is done
in the current code.

7. In rc.d/netif add a warning if $ipv6_enable is set, and remove
the set_rcvar_obsolete for it. Also remove the latter from
rc.d/ip6addrctl.

8. In /etc/defaults/rc.conf:

Add an example for RTADV configuration.

Set ipv6_network_interfaces to AUTO.

Switch ipv6_prefer to YES. If ipv6_enable is not set this will have
no effect.

Add a default for ipv6_privacy (NO).

9. Document all of this in rc.conf.5.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/etc/rc.d/netif b/etc/rc.d/netif
index f982cfce6474..06b8e76cfa9d 100755
--- a/etc/rc.d/netif
+++ b/etc/rc.d/netif
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 . /etc/network.subr
 
 name="network"
+start_precmd="network_prestart"
 start_cmd="network_start"
 stop_cmd="network_stop"
 cloneup_cmd="clone_up"
@@ -41,7 +42,13 @@ clonedown_cmd="clone_down"
 extra_commands="cloneup clonedown"
 cmdifn=
 
-set_rcvar_obsolete ipv6_enable ipv6_prefer
+network_prestart()
+{
+	if [ -n "$ipv6_enable" ]; then
+		warn 'The ipv6_enable option is deprecated.'
+		warn 'See rc.conf(5) for information on disabling IPv6.'
+	fi
+}
 
 network_start()
 {