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chindit

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Registered: 2014-01-30

Posts: 10

Enable IPv6 on ArchLinux

Hello everyone

I have a server with an IPv4 and I also have a IPv6 block:

What I don't know, is how to link my IPv6 to my Arch
(And I'm a noob with networks :S )

I tried to add manually an IPv6 address with this command:

sudo /usr/bin/ip -6 addr add 2001:bc8:3600:100::1/64 dev enp0s20

But my server doesn't seems to be reachable.

This is the full output of

ip addr

$ ip addr                                                         
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s20: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:07:cb:03:c4:a9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 163.172.40.174/24 brd 163.172.40.255 scope global noprefixroute enp0s20
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 2001:bc8:3600:100::1/64 scope global noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::94c7:b7a6:afb0:e29f/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

So, I don't know how to enable IPv6.

Any help ?

Thanks

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,279

Re: Enable IPv6 on ArchLinux

On archlinux ipv6 is enabled by default.
Please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6 thoroughly .

I think you want some_clients to access your archlinux server using ipv6 ?

Which services do they need to access and what type of clients are they ?

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