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Re: Linux and IPv6

To: venaas@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Linux and IPv6
From: Spark <spark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20000511193359.A1231@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Stig!

It works now..

Strange enough the 58 entry was in /etc/protocols, but with the wrong
name:

icmpv6   58      ICMPV6           # Internet Control Message Protocol
version 6

Greetings,

Hugo

On Thu, 11 May 2000 venaas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Spark wrote:
> > I'm Hugo and i'm working for an ISP in the Netherlands. Recently i decided
> > to delve into IPv6 and started experimenting with the Linux IPv6 stuff
> > like net-tools ipv6 and inet6-apps.  The net result of my attempts are
> > that i can see an ipv6 address on my eth0 interface, but i can't even ping
> > it.. ping (from net-tool ipv6) complains about not finding icmp6.
> 
> That one is easy, just add
> 
> icmp6  58      ICMP6  # ICMPv6
> 
> to /etc/protocols
> 
> Stig
> 
> -- 
> Duct tape is like the force.  It has a light side, and a dark side, and
> it holds the universe together ...
>                 -- Carl Zwanzig
> 


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