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

2019-12-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 8 December 2019 08:35:43 GMT Tamer Higazi wrote: > 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

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

2019-12-08 Thread 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

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

2019-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 6 December 2019 17:42:44 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote: > ULA support, or rather the ability to assign additional static IPv6 > addresses to an interface, depends on the router's firmware. If you can > make it work, https://cd34.com/rfc4193/ can help you generate a ULA > prefix. I can't

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

2019-12-06 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Peter Humphrey: > My IPv6 address is indeed static. Nice. In that case, you can of course use your router's global scope address in /etc/hosts or DNS. > The only IPv6 details my router shows are the LAN and WAN addresses, > and 'ip -6 route show' on this host, although it lists six addresses

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

2019-12-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:17:59 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Peter Humphrey: > > $ ping6 vdsl > > ping: vdsl: No address associated with hostname > > The outcome of ping depends on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, and even > on the OS of the IPv6 nodes involved. Apple devices will be

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

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* gentoo-u...@c-14.de: > The easiest option is if you're using stateful DHCPv6. In this case > you just need to set up your dhcp server to notify your dns server of > any new leases. That's what you consider "the easiest option"? ;-) I usually ask the following of people starting with IPv6: Do

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

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Peter Humphrey: > $ ping6 vdsl > ping: vdsl: No address associated with hostname The outcome of ping depends on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, and even on the OS of the IPv6 nodes involved. Apple devices will be available as somename.local, with "somename" being what the user configured as

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

2019-12-05 Thread gentoo-user
> Hello list, Hi, > 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

[gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
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