Ping IPv6 ONLY ?

[dewell@woods.net]

It sounds like you are using old packages, perhaps the 2.5.1
version on Solaris 7?  It is not going to work properly if so.

BUT, the old stuff used to put the utilities in /usr/ipv6/bin
and /usr/ipv6/sbin, are those first in your path?  If not, you
would get the IPv4 binaries from /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.  Of
course all this is changed in the newer releases...

I suspect that installing the 2.5.1 version of the package on
Solaris 7 wouldn't work, but if it did, it would probably do
what you are saying it does.  Suggestion: if it is called
something like ipv6_5.3.tar.Z, don't use it.  Note that the date
on that file is two years ago or so...  Remove it, and work on
getting the Solaris 7 package.

http://www.sun.com/solaris/ipv6/

That's the site for Solaris IPv6, however, last I checked (three
days ago), it hadn't been updated since sometime the middle of
1997.  (Sun: this page *really* needs to be updated.  Really it
does.  Actually, the page that it refers to needs to be
updated.)

keith.jamieson@bt.com <keith.jamieson@bt.com> wrote:
 > To All
 > 
 > I have set up 
 > 1) my Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 7 and the IPv6 patches, from the playground.
 > 2) the /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts6 to include all hosts on my subnet.
 > 3) the DNS server with IPv6 hosts
 > 4) the /etc/nsswitch.conf for files then dns for hosts and hosts6
 > 
 > I can
 > 1) Ping IPv6 address longhand ( ping ::1 , ping
 > fec0:f1::a00:20ff:fxxx.xxxx.xxxx )
 > 2) nslookup, set q=aaaa and enter host names and get IPv6 address returned.
 > 
 > I cannot
 > 1) ping hostname
 > 2) telnet hostname
 > 3) ftp .........
 > 
 > PLEASE - Can anyone help ?
 > 
 > Is the sun package for IPv4 and IPv6 or is it just IPv6 ? - I think the
 > former, suspect that the lower lying libraries are IPv4 only.
 > 
 > Keith
 > 
 > Keith Jamieson
 > * keith.jamieson@bt.com
 > * 01473 641662

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