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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
