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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 912

[Solved] What is the proper way to start IPv6?

I am a little confused. First, I tested to ensure IPv6 was working - it was not. So, based on some other posts I found, I added ipv6 to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted.

I tried ipv6 again. The response was "socket: Address family not supported by protocol", the same as it had been before adding ipv6 to rc.conf.

Next, I ran "sudo modprobe ipv6". Then ipv6 worked:

[tim@archbang ~]$ ping6 simplyrecipes.com
PING simplyrecipes.com(elise.com) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from elise.com: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=116 ms
64 bytes from elise.com: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=112 ms
64 bytes from elise.com: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=134 ms
64 bytes from elise.com: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=111 ms
64 bytes from elise.com: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=112 ms
64 bytes from elise.com: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=113 ms
--- simplyrecipes.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 111.767/116.905/134.493/8.040 ms

What exactly should I do to have the module loaded when I start Arch, rather than having to modprobe it each time? Thanks.

Tim

Last edited by ratcheer (2011-11-11 19:22:49)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] What is the proper way to start IPv6?

Are you sure you're not blacklisting it somewhere?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disabling_IPv6

Last edited by karol (2011-11-11 17:29:16)

ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 912

Re: [Solved] What is the proper way to start IPv6?

Are you sure you're not blacklisting it somewhere?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disabling_IPv6

Thank you very much. For some reason it is blacklisted by default. I certainly did not do it.

Tim