RE: [mipl] Issues with IPv6 forwarding and radvd

[Buch-Pedersen, Leif]

This will enable forwarding on all your interfaces on the running system:

 

sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.forwarding=1

sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth1.forwarding=1

sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth2.forwarding=1

 

To make this survive a reboot put this line in /etc/sysctl.conf:

 

net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1

 

Leif

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zarrar yousaf
Sent: Wednesday, 05 April, 2006 09:08
To: mipl@mobile-ipv6.org
Subject: [mipl] Issues with IPv6 forwarding and radvd

Hello

 

Any help for the followign questions will be appreicated:

PROBLEM SUMMARY:

The radvd application fails to start saying that ipv6 forwarding is not enabled.

To enable IPv6 forwarding, I don’t see any forwarding option in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/.

 

I am running Linux kernel version 2.6.14 under Debian Sarge 3.1,

 

PROBLEM DETAIL:

I am experimenting with IPv6 and trying to establish an IPv6 test network.

For this purpose I have 3 Linux (all running  kernel version 2.6.14 ) machines with one representing a ROUTER (and has 3 Ethernet interfaces). Eth0 is connected to the Internet, eth1 to HOST_A (which represents NETWORK A) and eth2 to HOST_B  (which represents NETWORK B).

I have been able to successfully establish a 6to4 tunnel using Freenet6 TSPC program. Now I want to configure the ROUTER and for that I installed the radvd application, made a /etc/radvd.conf file, but when I try to run the radvd application bz executing:

~# radvd –C /etc/radvd.conf

 I get the meesage that radvd fails to start as IPv6 forwarding is not enabled. so how to enable forwarding as there i cant see any forwarding command.

 

QUESTION ABOUT radvd:

I assumed that upon the installation of  radvd (using apt-get install radvd), the follwoign files should be automatically created:

/etc/radvd.conf

/var/run/radvd/radvd.pid

/var/log/radvd.log

/usr/sbin/radvd

But there is nothing created upon radvd istallation. So I manually create the /etc/radvd.conf file. Do I need to do the same for the other files, i.e., manually create them, or they will be created automatically once radvd is executed and starts to run

 

Please note that I am not a linux guru J and your help will be greatly appreciated

 

Thanks in advance

 

Zarrar

 

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