IPv6 Setup...

[Eric Crist]

On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:17 AMJun 23, 2007, Tilman Linneweh wrote:

>
> On Jun 23, 2007, at 04:36 , Eric Crist wrote:
>> I have 5 servers on my quaint little network, and my primary  
>> firewall is configured with an IPv6 address, we'll say  
>> 1000:2000:1::6 and is connected to my ISP through a gif tunnel  
>> (router doesn't support IPv6 yet, on my end) to 1000:2000:1::5.  I  
>> can ping6 all day long across this tunnel, and I can even connect  
>> through this firewall to other sites using the IPv6 addresses.
>>
>> I've been given 2001:4900:1:0111::/64 for my use.  I've  
>> configured /etc/rc.conf on my first two machines with  
>> ipv6_enable="YES" and given them 2001:4980:1:0111::1 and  
>> 2001:4980:1:0111::2.  Each machine can ping6 itself, but they  
>> cannot ping6 eachother.  I know the copper is good, and my ipv6 is  
>> running along side my ipv4 addresses and such.  In addition, there  
>> are no firewalls in between.
>>
>> Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Maybe you used a /128 netmask, or a wrong routing table? Try  
> sniffing with tcpdump/wireshark to see what is going on.
>
>>
>> Also, what the heck is rtadvd_enable="YES" actually doing for me?   
>> I understand it's broadcasting some routing stuff so my other  
>> hosts can auto-configure their IPv6 addresses, but anything else?
>>
>
> There is a section in the handbook about ipv6:
>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- 
> ipv6.html
>

Tilman,

Thanks for the reply.  I'm sure I'm using a /64 prefix and I've  
already read heavily through the page mentioned above.

Any other ideas?

Eric Crist