[TriLUG] IPv6 workshop

Igor Partola igor at igorpartola.com
Wed May 18 16:16:33 EDT 2011


Yes, I am using radvd. It works for almost all the devices on my
network, with the exception of ones that are too old to support IPv6
(NSLU2) and my main workstation (the machine in question). That value
is set to 1.

Thanks,
Igor

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Woodbury <jpwoodbu at mybox.org> wrote:
> I didn't read the whole thread, but it sounds like you're using radvd or
> something like it to auto configure IPv6 addresses on your network.  If so,
> is /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/$IFACE/autoconf set to 1 for the interface that
> doesn't want to auto-configure?
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>
>> I enabled and toggled that setting several times for this connection.
>> And funny enough, when using a USB WiFi adapter on the same connection
>> (both cards are WiFi), it picked up the IPv6 address right away.
>>
>> Igor
>>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>> >> Has anyone experienced this and is there a cure?
>> >
>> > I noticed that I had to go into the NetworkManager applet and
>> > "edit connections", select the current connection and specifically
>> > enable IPv6 for it.  I was wondering if there were some global
>> > setting for "always get an IPv6, if available, you dolt", but
>> > did not dig into it much.
>> >
>> > This will be one of my questions one week from today at the
>> > IPv6 workshop.
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > .
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