You shouldn't need to configure anything on the clients at all.
To get the Win2003 Server box to advertise itself as a default router,
it needs to have a default route present in the routing table. If
you're running an issolated lab, you can point the default route
anywhere (e.g. loopback, or one of your lab links). Then add routes for
each of the subnets in your lab to the routing table. Make sure all the
interfaces are marked as "advertise" and "forwarding" using netsh.
--Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Susan Zheng
Sent: Friday, 09 September, 2005 11:24
To: Mark Smith
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: how to add default gateway on Linux host
Thank you for your info!
My current IPv6 set up situation is like described as below:
The two linux hosts can ping their default gateway's site-local
addresses,
i.e. each site-local address connect to the other net.
For example:
---------------
host1 from net1 can ping the other net's --> net2 side-local
address through it's own net1's link-local address (gateway). And host2
from net2 can ping the other net --> net1 side-local address through
it's own net2's link-local address (gateway).
Problem:
----------
host1 from net1 cannot ping host2 from net2 via their site-local
addresses.
Note: The router (Win2003 server) is configured via netsh which
has routing enabled, forward enabled and interface published.
On Linux hosts, I've added a static route to the other net
site-local address via its own net's router link-local address. And, a
default route ::/0 via its own net's router link-local address.
Not sure if the above configuration still have some problem or
something else needs to be done to make it work --> The two hosts from
differrent subnet can reach each other?
Thank you very much for the help!
Susan
Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
Susan Zheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a beginner for IPv6 need to set up a small private
IPv6 network.
>
> The lab setup plan is like below:
>
> Use 1 windows 2003 server which has two IPv6
interfaces configured as
> default routers(it has two NIC cards) connected to
net1 and net2.
>
> My linux host 1 is on net1 and linux host 2 is on net
2. Both are IPv6 enablled. The goal is to let the two hosts on different
subnet to ping each other by their site-scope address.
>
> Note:
> The two hosts can ping each other in IPv4 addresses,
but can't reach each
> other by IPv6 addresses.
>
> Any advices about what need to do are very much
appreciated!
>
Well, you could configure a static default on both Linux
box es, pointing
to the IPv6 link local address of the corresponding
interface they're
attached to on the Win 2003 server.
Alternatively, and generally a better idea, as this is
how IPv6 was
designed to be used, run a Router Advertising service on
the Windows
2003 box, which can both inform the Linux hosts of their
IPv6 site-local
prefixes and subnets (the first 64 bits of the address),
and their
default router address. That makes the Linux host
configuration
plug-and-play.
I don't know what service will perform this router
advertisement do this
under Windows 2003 server unfortunately as I don't use
it.
btw, don't get too fixed on the idea of deploying
site-local addresses,
I'm pretty sure they've recently been deprecated, to be
replaced with
Unique Local Addresses or ULAs. ULAs have similar
routing properties to
site-locals (e.g. they aren't supposed to be routed
across the
Internet), however they've added a unique part to t he
address allowing
sites or organisations to be joined together with a very
low
probability of subnet number collisions. This site
joining includes via
a VPN. There are a number of other advantages to ULAs
over site-locals.
HTH,
Mark.
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