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Fonk 09-21-2005 10:08 AM
IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration client
 
Hi!

I'd like to have a debian box configuring its interfaces with the router advertisements from an OpenBSD box running rtadvd. How's the /etc/network/interfaces going to look? I tried

Code:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet 6
and also

Code:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet6 static
but debian complains alway about missing option...
man interfaces didn't help either... i just got it managed with
Code:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet6 static
  address 2001::1
    netmask 64
but I don't need this IPv6 address...

Any hints?

wildcat22 09-21-2005 01:46 PM
I don't know specificially about Debian. But, if you are using the 2.6 kernel, then everything should work automatically. By default, linux uses Stateless Address Autoconfiguration.

I guess I'm not sure why you want to do anything with /etc/network/interfaces ?

You shouldn't have to configure anything is my point, that's the beauty of IPv6 - it *should* just work.
And with the 2.6 kernel, it definetly just works, it is being used in conformance testing for companies just getting their v6 stacks off the ground.

Like I said, I don't know about debian, those results may differ.

-wc

Fonk 09-22-2005 01:33 AM
If I set the interface up with "ifconfig eth0 up" it _is_ autoconfigured.... debian just don't want to set it "up" automatically on boot without giving it an ip address... that's the point!


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