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ghen

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 121

new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

Hi,

with the old (ifconfig-based) initscripts, I had static IPv4+IPv6 addresses (on a single interface) work like this:

eth0="eth0 178.21.112.59 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 178.21.112.255 add 2a02:2308::3be:0:1/64"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

gateway="default gw 178.21.112.1"
gateway6="default gw 2a02:2308::1"
ROUTES=(gateway gateway6)

The new initscripts (iproute2-based) don't support this anymore, and refer to netcfg for anything more "complex" than a single interface with a single (IPv4) address.  However netcfg doesn't seem to (properly) support IPv6.  So this is actually a regression, and I've left my old rc.conf in place for now.

I think it's a shame IPv6 is treated like a second-class citizen in 2011.

How are other IPv6'ers configuring their networks now?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

netcfg from testing supports ipv6

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ghen

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 121

Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

I don't see a netcfg package in testing?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

Hi,

with the old (ifconfig-based) initscripts, I had static IPv4+IPv6 addresses (on a single interface) work like this:

eth0="eth0 178.21.112.59 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 178.21.112.255 add 2a02:2308::3be:0:1/64"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

gateway="default gw 178.21.112.1"
gateway6="default gw 2a02:2308::1"
ROUTES=(gateway gateway6)

The new initscripts (iproute2-based) don't support this anymore, and refer to netcfg for anything more "complex" than a single interface with a single (IPv4) address.  However netcfg doesn't seem to (properly) support IPv6.  So this is actually a regression, and I've left my old rc.conf in place for now.

I think it's a shame IPv6 is treated like a second-class citizen in 2011.

How are other IPv6'ers configuring their networks now?

OT: Where do you get native ipv6 in Belgium? Are you in some pilot program?

ghen

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 121

Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

This config is from a hosted server in the Netherlands.
At home in Belgium, I have tunneled IPv6 via SixXS.
For native: yes, I'm in some pilot program. ;-)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

Website

Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

sorry, is about to release

http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.gi … s/ethernet

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Ramses de Norre

Member

From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

This config is from a hosted server in the Netherlands.
At home in Belgium, I have tunneled IPv6 via SixXS.
For native: yes, I'm in some pilot program. ;-)

A pilot in the netherlands then? Indeed, I knew they've got ISPs that offer ipv6 there.
I'm also using sixxs atm, that works decently but unfortunately the speeds are often quite a bit less than what I get over ipv4.

ghen

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 121

Re: new initscripts and IPv6/dualstack support?

sorry, is about to release

Thanks, I'll give it a try when it's there.  It looks good at first sight.

I still regret it won't be possible via rc.conf like the IPv4 case though...