IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration client

Fonk · 09-21-2005, 10:08 AM

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!