Richard Melville wrote:
On 8 September 2015 at 17:07, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
Richard Melville wrote:
On another point: is there anywhere in the book that IPv6
can be gently introduced or is that too much to take on at the beginner's
stage?
I guess there are some ISPs that are using ipv6 now, but not mine.
Internally I also use a private ipv4 address space and my router does NAT
to the address given to me by the ISP.
That said, I think the ipv6 issues would be:
kernel configuration
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0
and possibly:
/sbin/ifup
/sbin/ifdown
/lib/services/ipv4-static
The last should work for ipv6 except for messages. The configuration files
should only need to specify the proper ipv6 address.
I really can't fully test ipv6. Is there something else?
I think you've covered it. The only issue I had when using the supplied
boot scripts was with bridge-utils, but of course that's in the BLFS book.
It was impossible to add an IPv6 address to the IPv4 address on the bridge
without hacking the script, or of course adding it manually.
Just a thought, couldn't you set up IPV6 just internally on your LAN for
testing.
Yes, but the test would be incomplete. The real idea of ipv6 is to make
all the systems visible to the internet. I could test direct
connections, but not routing.
In any case, you are right that it would be a BLFS issue. It would go
in the 'After LFS Configuration Issues' chapter.
-- Bruce
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