HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator's Guide for TOUR 2.0 (April 2004, rev 2)

Configuration
Manual Configuration
Chapter 328
Activating netconf-ipv6 file Configuration
You can activate the netconf-ipv6 configuration in one of the following
ways:
• By rebooting the system.
• Or alternatively, by executing the ifconfig and route commands,
as needed, to make equivalent configuration settings.
NOTE HP recommends rebooting your system to activate any changes you
made to your netconf-ipv6 file. A reboot is the cleanest way to
reconfigure an interface because the reboot handles any network
initialization dependencies.
HP recognizes that system reboots are disruptive to end users. To delay
or schedule the reboot, but still make your configuration changes active,
you may execute the ifconfig and route commands with the
appropriate values for your network. These values are ephemeral
however, and will not last across reboots. After the reboot, the values in
your netconf-ipv6 file will be used. Refer to the examples that follow
and the ifconfig(1M), and route(1M) man pages for more information
on using these commands.
Example ifconfig and route Commands
HP recommends editing the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf-ipv6 file to
preserve IPv6 interface and address configurations across system
reboots. For reference, the commands equivalent to the netconf-ipv6
edits described earlier are listed below. Refer to the ifconfig(1M) and
route(1M) man pages for more information.
To configure a primary interface, enter:
ifconfig lan0 inet6 up
To configure a secondary interface, enter:
ifconfig lan0:1 inet6 2345::5432 up
To add a default IPv6 route, enter:
route inet6 add net default 2008:7:6:5:4:3:2:1