Absolute beginner at practical use of IPv6. Reading man pages and
tutorials and presentations. Now for a bit of hands-on to make sure I'm
not storing inaccurate concepts by misinterpreting something so it
won't work in practice.
Scenario:
2 hosts on my LAN
first one, fox:
# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:02:b3:8b:d5:08
groups: egress
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet 192.168.80.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:fe8b:d508%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
Second one, po:
# ifconfig rl0
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:01:80:0f:66:83
groups: egress
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet 192.168.80.117 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
inet6 fe80::201:80ff:fe0f:6683%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
When I try to ping6 from one to the other I see no replies unless I use
-I $if when it works fine.
Of course when I try to telnet to port 25 to test email sending I see
"no route to host" messages.
I would have thought that link-level addresses would have worked but
decided to try site-level by adding a line to each in ifconfig simply
changing the fe80 to fec0 and then everything works fine.
The line appears like this:
inet6 fec0::201:80ff:fe0f:6683 prefixlen 64
added to the end of the above.
Can someone please point me at documentation that will lead me to know
why I can't use link-level addresses like that?
I managed to find loads of stuff about IPv6 routers, DNS, tunnelling
etc but not much early stage education that I can implement for lab
work to get me up to speed.
Thanks,
Rod/
>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
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