Re: IPv6 configuration basics help

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On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 09:26 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I wanna play with IPv6 on my LAN, for self-education purposes. My upstream 
> is IPv4 only, so, for now, I just one to play with IPv6 on my LAN.
> 
> I figured out that, by default, each network interface gets automatically 
> brought up with a link local addresses based on a MAC address.
> 
> >From one server, I can succesfully "ping6 -i <interface> ipv6 address" of 
> another server, without really having to do anything myself. But I have to 
> explicitly specify the network interface via the -i parameter. I see no 
> equivalent of the IPv6 routing table, for IPv6, so what steps are needed to 
> have the system know which network interface to use, for a given IPv6 
> address?
> 
> If I want to assign an explicit IPv6 address to an interface, rather than 
> the default one, what do I put into 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface>? One of my servers is 
> headless. Can't run system-config-network, or some other purty GUI, I need 
> to know what manually needs to be stuffed into initscripts.
> 
> Once I wrap my brain around these basics, I think I'll be able to figure out 
> IPv6 DHCP by myself.
> 

Please have a look at THE IPv6 site for Linux, start of with the
howto... http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/

That should answer your questions



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