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? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.