Malte Starostik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Monday 07 October 2002 21:13, Warly wrote:
>> Malte Starostik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > as stated in MandrakeExpert as "Can't enable IPv6 on Dolphin", it's not
>> > possible to enable IPv6.
>> > Some further investigation showed that
>> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global from
>> > initscripts-6.91-10mdk which comes with 9.0 and is still in cooker is
>> > totally incompatible with
>> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6.
>> > This leads to the questiong: did anyone actually try to enable IPv6
>> > before that package made it into 9.0???
>> > Well, I retrieved the previous revision of init.ipv6-global from CVS now
>> > (1.1.1.1) and that one works fine at least on my box.
>>
>> I do not find the report on MandrakeExpert, and my simple IPV6
>> configuration seems to work well.
>>
>> could you describe your config, or just send me your config files ?
> Sure, all I did was to add NETWORKING_IPV6=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network and 
> then I ran /sbin/service network restart.
> Then init.ipv6-global complained about a missing ipv6_test. I symlinked 
> /bin/true to /bin/ipv6_test to see if that's all, but then it bombed with 
> lots of errors about ipv6_exec_ip et al.
> I guess those should all be defined in network-functions-ipv6, but according 
> to CVSWeb, network-functions-ipv6 is older (10 months, last log "merge rh 
> 6.40.2") than init.ipv6-global (2 months, last log "rh 6.87").
>
> If it works for you, does init.ipv6-global use ipv6_test or test_ipv6? If the 
> former, where does it get that function from?

OK, reproduced and will be fixed in next initscripts release, soon in updates.

-- 
Warly

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