IPv6: routing on the local LAN
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org
Sat Dec 24 18:22:26 PST 2005
On 25 Dec 2005 at 2:59, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> 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"
Thanks.
I wanted to run rtadvd for the boxes inside the LAN. That ensure
they get an address in the right range (AFAIK).
Now... I just have to find someone with services, such as cvsup,
available only over IPv6.... But what I've been reading indicates
that cvsup is not IPv6 aware.
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