On 2011-07-15, Eric <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm trying to setup an IPv6 address on my server, it's a simple box
> with a nic connected to the internet, the housing facility provided me
> with a /64 matching my IPv4 address and told me to setup rtadv.
>
> Quite easy I thought, looking at hostname.if(5), I added a simple
> "inet6 alias 2001:41d0:2:1d4f::1 64" to my hostname.sis0, turned rtadv
>
> Upon reboot, ifconfig shows me
> inet6 fe80::21c:c0ff:fe82:9213%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>
> Another reboot without the "alias" flag in the hostname.sis0, and
> ifconfig gives me the following result:
> inet6 fe80::21c:c0ff:fe82:9213%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> inet6 2001:41d0:2:1d4f::1 prefixlen 64
>
> I made sure pf allows icmp6 through to get the gateway address, but
> looking at my routing I suspected something was wrong.
> Checking with rtsol I end up with the following result:
> # rtsol -d sis0
> checking if sis0 is ready...
> sis0 is ready
> send RS on sis0, whose state is 2
> received RA from fe80::5:73ff:fea0:0 on sis0, state is 2
> stop timer for sis0
> there is no timer
>
> The documentation of the housing facility tells me their routers are
> always on ::FF:FF:FF:FF:FF so I tried a ping6:
> # ping6 2001:41d0:2:1F:FF:FF:FF:FF
> PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:41d0:2:1d4f::1 -->
> 2001:41d0:2:1f:ff:ff:ff:ff
> ^C
> --- 2001:41d0:2:1F:FF:FF:FF:FF ping6 statistics ---
> 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
>
> Most documents I found on the web focus on setting up things through
> tunnels as most providers still don't offer IPv6 connectivity yet.
> What am I missing here?
>
>
The address you're trying to ping is outside of your subnet,
should it be 2001:41d0:2:1d4f:ff:ff:ff:ff ?
$ sipcalc 2001:41d0:2:1d4f::/64 | grep -A1 range
Network range - 2001:41d0:0002:1d4f:0000:0000:0000:0000 -
2001:41d0:0002:1d4f:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
netstat -rnfinet6 might give clues.
