Understood.
=> unfortunately the "add" (or the correct version of it, I've just set upOn Tue Oct 23 15:11:09 2012, tpdean@gmail.com wrote:
> Had to a make a minor tweak inside dhcp-4.2.4-P2/client/scripts/netbsd in
> order to get DHCPv6 working on NetBSD 6.0 final:
>
> L282 currently reads: ifconfig ${interface} inet6 add
> ${new_ip6_address}/${new_ip6_prefixlen}
>
> Had to remove "add" in order for this to apply the acquired address
> properly. ifconfig yields a syntax error otherwise. Unsure if this
> affects previous versions of NetBSD.
a NetBSD 6.0 virtual machine so the man says it is a final "alias",
and "-alias" for del(ete)) makes the difference between a command
which sets (by overwriting) the address and a command which adds
another address. So the correct fix should require more work.