Linux Help for ipv6

Jeroen Massar linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:12:47 +0200


Justin Hammond <fish@dynam.ac> wrote:

<SNIP>
> www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
Excellent starting point.... you could also take a peek at
http://hs247.com

<SNIP>

> This is the problem I have:
> 
> from any other PC on the internal network, I cant 
> connect/ping past the
> gateway, *unless* I go to the gateway and ping the host first.
> then for a period of about 30 seconds, I can connect/ping 
> only the host that
> I pinged from the gateway, but no other host past my gateway.
> after about 30 Seconds, any connections I have get droped. 
> (for eg, right
> now, I have a ping script running in a loop, just so I can do some
> application testing!)

On the gateway do a :
route add -A inet6 2000::/3 dev <your device>

This is because (most) versions of net-tools on linux don't work
correctly with the default route... :)

Matteo Tescione [wizard@think.to.it] wrote:
> I think the best way is to go to IRCnet in channel like #ipv6 and ask.

Who will nicely point you to the http://hs247.com and
http://www.bieringer.de sites... <evil grin>

Greets,
 Jeroen

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