On 7 June 2012 18:55, Paul Tansom <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple of very quick questions on IPv6 that people may be able to cast > light > on. > > 1. Does anyone know why IPv6 doesn't come up on boot with Ubuntu 10.04? I > can > enable it once it is booted with a quick ifdown and ifup (although I have > to > force the ifdown). For some reason it doesn't come up when the server is > rebooted. The same config in the interfaces file on my 12.04 box works > fine. > > 2. With a Ubuntu 8.04 server (yes I know it is old!) with IPv6 enabled and > Apache apparently supporting IPv6 am I right in assuming that there is > other > infrastructure that limits it working? I note that host, for example, does > not > support IPv6. I could of course be missing something as it can be tricky > working out whether the issue is at client or server, especially when one > test > I was using quoted IPv6 working fine and the other insisted it was IPv4 > only! > In the end the postive test was simply telling me the client was working > because it was pulling the info from a different server - doh. > > Of course both of these servers are penciled in for an upgrade to 12.04 > ASAP, > but the AP bit is proving the limiting factor in terms of available time to > sort it out :( > > The general question is how are you allocating IPv6 addresses on these machines? Have you had a network allocated by the provider? My guess would be that if you haven't, on 10.04 it doesn't come up if an address isn't available or if there isn't a link-local network available, and on 8.04 an allocated address needs to find a link-local network or an enabled router.
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