Thanks martin and Tony for your pointers and suggestions. I have my IPv6 enabled kernel, and I get link-local addresses on eth[01] automagically. I can ping the loopback interface or the link-local ones just fine. I couldn't ping www.kame.net or any other IPv6 host, even though I followed the directions in the howtos. Using traceroute6 I saw that my packets crossed one hop and got no further. See more comments further down.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:43:04AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.19.0355 +0100]: | > What I'm wondering is how I would go about trying to use IPv6. I know | > the first step is to include it in my kernel. I don't know where to | > go after that. | | without trying to be a bitch: | | http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/ | | you'll have to excuse his english at times, i am in the process of | translating it proper (peter bieringer sits right next to me at work). That's cool. His english isn't perfect, but it isn't bad either. Very comprehensible. | however, you'll need to forget most of IPv4 and understand IPv6 first | before you can even try... It doesn't sound like it so far. Maybe I just don't know enough IPv4 for it to really trip me up. | > Surely I will need to get a v6 IP address from | > somewhere and I would need to have other host(s) on the network also | > using IPv6. | | you already have an IPv6 for each of those. probably even multiple | ones. That's cool. I like that :-). | > (I'm familiar with the 5-layer model of the Internet) | | i know a 4 and a 7 layer model: DoD's TCP/IP and ISO/OSI respectively. | which one is yours? or are you simply using ISO/OSI and ignoring | dara link and physical, the lowest two? that would be completely | acceptable btw, but it's not the 5-layer model of the internet. It's the ISO/OSI model with the two layers below the top one removed. Like this : 1) physical (wire) 2) link (ethernet) 3) network (IP) 4) transport (TCP or UDP) 5) application (HTTP, SSH, FTP, etc) | > Are there publicly accessible IPv6 hosts (ie web sites and the like)? | > It seems logical that I would need to tunnel the IPv6 over IPv4 to get | > the packets through my ISP to the remote host. | | how's your german? Uh, ... hamburg frankfurt sauerkraut sandwich ... that doesn't count, does it? | but | http://www.freenet6.net/ | is probably better for you since you are a private perso. | > Is there a possibility that people/providers/whoever will actually | > do that at all, essentially giving me an IPv6 address with no extra | > cost/effort on my part? | | yes. freenet6 or join. Ok, I browsed www.freenet6.net a bit. It looks like they have a service akin to the ddts service. I haven't signed up yet, but I installed the 'freenet6' package. Now I can ping6 www.kame.net. I can also browse it with galeon and get the animated turtle (before it would just timeout even though I could IPv4-ping it). Just to test it, I purged the freenet6 package and couldn't ping6 anymore. A reinstall and I can ping6. I wonder what it does that makes it work ... (oh, yeah, I didn't configure 'freenet6' at all). Most of it is quite clear, though I'm not sure about the sit[01] devices and the details of the routing tables. That's where I need to look next, when I get some time to spend on it. However, if anyone feels the desire to explain it here, I'm all ears :-). -D -- Microsoft: "Windows NT 4.0 now has the same user-interface as Windows 95" Windows 95: "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot" Windows NT 4.0: "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login"
