On 3/14/2012 11:04 AM, gene heskett wrote: > The ipv6 address is what an ifconfig spits out for this machine. Its there > but I have no clue if it works. The 'shop' box doesn't have ipv6 disabled, > and it shows inet6 addr: fe80::3a60:77ff:fe4e:381b/64 Scope:Link in the > ifconfig output. A ping6 fe80::3a60:77ff:fe4e:381b doesn't work, acts like > a syntax error, and of course there is no man page for ping6. Figures... > According to 'man ping' there are switches to make it use ipv6 stuff, but > when you try them, its all unk host errors. If they want this ipv6 crap > to go live about 100 days from now, there is going to be a lot of gored > oxen around with the "its all a big secret" manpages we have now. Gene:
I truly sympathize because I've also been in situations where everything I did seemed to make things worse, but I think this is overreacting to IPv6. My recent Linux/Windows installs have all added IPv6 interfaces as shown by ifconfig (renamed ipconfig in Windows, thanks to some MS-dweb) even though I'm not setting up IPv6 intentionally. I agree the documentation is sorry but when was that not the case with Unix/Linux? Let the LinuxCNC author without sin cast the first stone regarding documentation. Still, my hosts all "just work." As a latest for instance: I just installed LinHES (MythTV on ArchLinux) on a host in the basement on the wired-LAN side of a wireless client bridge I created from a Linksys AP running DD-WRT. Running Ubuntu 11.10 inside VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host on the wired-LAN side of a stock wireless AP upstairs, I was immediately able to ssh -Y into the LinHES box without my fingers leaving my hands. (Most of those details are irrelevant other than to show that mixing and matching a bunch of stuff using default settings has worked well enough for me.) Speaking figuratively, I can't help but think that in the process of "fixing" (in the veterinarian sense) the IPv6 issues on your new host some wires have gotten crossed. My first car (it had fins!) didn't run too well either after I managed to cross several spark plug wires. As soon as Comcast offers IPv6-service to me here in Gaithersburg I expect to test their connectivity. My grandmother liked to say "there's many a slip twixt the fork and the lip." I think most of the slips with IPv6 are going to take place twixt us end users and the world. Have you tried running from a LiveCD/LiveUSBStick on whichever host isn't cooperating (coyote, is it?) to see if at least the basic distribution works? Truth in advertising: Sometimes I'm brilliantly correct. Sometimes I'm spectacularly incorrect. Mostly I just muddle through, but I always sound like I know what I'm talking about. Regards, Kent PS - whenever I get an error message I slap it into my search engine du jour. Surprise---"X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0" gets a lot of play. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
