System Administration Guide: IP Services

ProcedureHow to Turn Off IPv6 Address Autoconfiguration

You normally should use address autoconfiguration to generate the IPv6 addresses for the interfaces of hosts and servers. However, sometimes you might want to turn off address autoconfiguration, especially if you want to manually configure a token, as explained in Configuring an IPv6 Token.

  1. Log in to the IPv6 node as Primary Administrator or as superuser.


  2. Create an /etc/inet/ndpd.conf file for the node.

    The /etc/inet/ndpd.conf file defines interface variables for the particular node. This file should have the following contents in order to turn off address autoconfiguration for all of the server's interfaces:

    if-variable-name StatelessAddrConf false

    For details about /etc/inet/ndpd.conf, refer to the ndpd.conf(4) man page and ndpd.conf Configuration File.

  3. Update the IPv6 daemon with your changes.

    # pkill -HUP in.ndpd