Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

[Tamer Higazi]

Dear Peter,

Adding ipv6 address is not the deal.

Question(s):

How do you connect to the internet ?

Do you connect through pppoe (point-to-point-over-ethernet) or over ppoa 
(point-to-point-over-atm) ?

Does your modem handle the dialin for you automatically?

In this case there are 2 other choices (NAT Router) or bridged mode.

Tell us a bit more about your topologie, and how you enter the internet.


best, Tamer


On 2019-12-05 15:38, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Having been inspired by the recent discussion of IPv6, I decided to try it,
> starting with my ISP, my Billion Bipac vDSL modem-router and one host - this
> one. Of course it isn't straightforward.
>
> Zen has allocated me a /64 ND prefix and a /48 PD prefix. I found a way to
> tell the Bipac to set up IPv6, and rebooted it; it now tells me its LAN
> address is 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba/64. Nslookup on this host says
> the same, without the /64. But then this:
>
> $ ping6 vdsl
> ping: vdsl: No address associated with hostname
> $ ping6 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba
> PING 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba(2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:
> 8eba) 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=1.75 ms
> ^C
>
> If I add the LAN address of the Bipac to /etc/hosts, ping finds it okay, but
> what if the address changes if the Bipac reboots? I thought this kind of
> address fixing was unnecessary in IPv6.
>
> And am I supposed to fix the IPv6 addresses of the other hosts on the LAN, or
> just stick to IPv4 for local comms? And I haven't yet even thought about the
> wireless devices served by the Bipac, though I see my mobile phone has
> acquired an IPv6 address starting with fe80::40be... and it doesn't look like
> its MAC address.
>