[22] in SIPB IPv6
IPv6 on Athena 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Sat Jun 9 00:17:39 2001
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Jun 2001 00:17:33 -0400
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On Solaris and Linux Athena 9.0 systems, IPv6 is easy to set up.
Solaris:
Create an empty /etc/hostname6.hme0 (or whatever your net
interface name is) and reboot. That's it.
On booting, it'll turn on IPv6, and automatically configure
additional interface addresses when it receives router
advertisements. The "ifconfig -a" output looks a little funny,
because it lists each interface once for each address family:
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 18.18.1.70 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 18.18.255.255
lo0: flags=2000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 8252 index 1
inet6 ::1/128
hme0: flags=2000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2
inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe9a:26d4/10
hme0:1: flags=2080841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,ADDRCONF,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2
inet6 3ffe:1ce1:0:12:a00:20ff:fe9a:26d4/64
hme0:2: flags=2080841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,ADDRCONF,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2
inet6 2002:1212:148:12:a00:20ff:fe9a:26d4/64
Linux (RH7.1) seems to be a little trickier, but I haven't spent much
time looking; it's possible I overlooked some obvious knob to tweak.
Add "NETWORKING_IPV6=yes" to /etc/sysconfig/network and reboot.
After booting -- each time -- force the "ipv6" module to get
loaded (i.e., run "/sbin/insmod ipv6" as root, manually or from a
boot-time script).
It looks to me like the boot-time scripts are trying to really
turn ipv6 on, but it's not happening on my machine unless I force
the loading of the module.
I don't know if the current Irix release has IPv6 support.
