IPv6: routing on the local LAN

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:37:56 -0500
"Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> Gidday folks,
> 
> I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway.
> 
> I have an IPv6 tunnel supplied by Hurricane Electric.  The tunnel is
> 
> setup and working.  From my gateway I can access various IPv6 
> websites (e.g http://www.kame.net).  I have enabled rtadvd(8) on my 
> gateway.  For the netstat, ifconfig, etc, see [1].
> 
> >From a computer inside my gateway, I cannot ping anything, not even
> >
> the gateway.  I suspect it's because the routing tables are not
> being  set up on the gateway.  I expected the system to do that 
> automatically.  I also expected fxp0 to get an IPv6 address out of 
> this.  Did I guess wrong?  I suspect that if I can get fxp0 on the 
> gateway, all will be well.  If not, I think Ineed to set up static 
> routes.

Add a single 2001:470:1F00:1979::/64 address each for both fxp0/1. You
don't even need rtadv.conf :)

rc.conf:-
ipv6_ifconfig_fxp0="2001:470:1F00:1979::1/64"
ipv6_ifconfig_fxp1="2001:470:1F00:1979::2/64"

> 
> The workstation inside the LAN has the config shown in [2].  
> 
> Checking via tcpdump on the gateway, I can see pings from the client
> 
> hitting the internal NIC (fxp1) and going out the IPv6 tunnel
> (gif0).
> 
> In case I've missed something about setting up the tunnel, the 
> details are [3].
> 
> Suggestions, comments, thanks.
> 
> [1] Gateway - <http://www.langille.org/tmp/ipv6-config-gateway.txt>
> [2] Client - <http://www.langille.org/tmp/ipv6-config-client.txt>
> [3] Tunnel - <http://www.langille.org/tmp/ipv6-config-tunnel.txt>



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