I've enabled ipv6 support in my kernel and it appears to be working on
the "lo" interface:
# ip -6 addr show lo
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
# ping6 -c3 ::1
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.021 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.021 ms
--- ::1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.021/0.021/0.022/0.003 ms
And the other interfaces all have link-local addresses:
# ip -6 addr show eth1
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
inet6 fe80::216:17ff:fe84:a7b3/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
But I can't ping6 any of the "real" interfaces (or any external
address):
# ping6 -c3 fe80::216:17ff:fe84:a7b3
connect: Invalid argument
Why can I ping "lo" at ::1 and not "eth1" at fe80::216:17ff:fe84:a7b3?
I'm guessing there might other packages I have to re-emerge with the
ipv6 use flag. But, I do not want to rebuild everything capable of
supporting ipv6, since there are only a few selected programs that
I'll be using with ipv6. I thought I might have to rebuild glibc, but
it doens't list ipv6 as one of it's use flags.
Any hints?
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