Re: Why specify a default router?

2005-07-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:07:53AM -0700, The Orange Rider wrote: Time and time again I read about how hosts don't need to have a default gateway configured statically in IPv6 as they did in IPv4 becuase they will automatically discover the router via Neighbor Discovery Protocol (through

Re: How to cleanly disable IPv6 on Debian Sarge?

2004-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:05:28AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: I think (at least in my case) deactivating autoconfiguration when none is possible is enough, and this is probably possible via /etc/sysctl.conf. No it is unfortunatelly not. Some stuff in IPv6 cannot be turned off. Disabling the

Re: Linux odd IPv6 Routing

2003-10-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:06:33AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote: Machine C: a 4th machine, single interface: inet6 2001:730:11:17c::5/64 scope global inet6 fe80::250:baff:fe37:a5b3/64 scope link Which address of machine C have you tried? Try to run tcpdump on machine C while

Re: ipv6 routing

2003-10-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:24:28AM +1300, Noodles wrote: Thanks guys, I added the subnet 2001::/3 to my routing table, and it's all working now What kernel version, and have u turned ip-forwarding on (if so, why?) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL

Re: Recovering from multiple routers advertising routes

2003-05-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:56:48AM -0400, Bill Cerveny wrote: changes caused by the router advertisements. route failed in my attempts to remove the /64 blocks. I ultimately got rid of the routing problems by rebooting the Linux systems. output of the route command and the error message

Re: network's architecture under IPv6

2003-02-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:42:24PM +, Daniel O'Neill wrote: Hmm, i dunno... But, neighbour discovery all the same, it's a means of passing packets anyway Yes ND and arp are basically the same. Actually Linux is calling the V4 stuff ND, also. The problem with IPv6 Auto Configuration (with

Re: network's architecture under IPv6

2003-02-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:06:37PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Isn't neighbor discovery multicast, not broadcast, so it only goes to some hosts on the subnet? A fairly small number of them? Yes, Neighbour and Router Discovery uses Multicast in a special multicast group partitioned by the

Re: network's architecture under IPv6

2003-02-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: Yes, Neighbour and Router Discovery uses Multicast in a special multicast group partitioned by the last 32bits of the requested address. Unless you have clever switches, this only means the host stacks have less to process,

Re: need help setting up ipv6

2002-08-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:04:05AM -, IPv IITKGP wrote: As I am planning to set an isolated IPv6 network (intially), so please let me know how i can do it... All the information like setting up the router ect. not sure why you need a router for an islated network, but it is pretty easy.

Re: need help setting up ipv6

2002-08-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:56:05PM +0200, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: Setting up a router allows you to use global addresses, thereby obviating the need to specify which link to use when connecting to another box. Ever tried to ping a link-local address? :) Well, the unintelligent behaviour of

Re: 6to4 problem

2002-08-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:09:13AM +0300, Laitinen Ismo wrote: ping6: 08:49:33.274608 e272.w3.ton.tut.fi 192.88.99.1: 2002:c1a6:5c4e::1 apple.kame.net: icmp6: echo request (encap) 08:49:33.592821 kddilab.6to4.jp e272.w3.ton.tut.fi: apple.kame.net 2002:c1a6:5c4e::1: icmp6: echo reply

Re: IPv6 Tunneling Tools

2002-07-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 05:15:36PM +0700, Indra Kusuma wrote: there is an ipv6 tunnel tools to make easy to control the tunnel, feels free to test and use it at http://debian.kusuma.or.id/tools/6tunnel the deb package will be released soon. Please dont add a single script as a new debian

Re: Debian 3.0 and the IPv6 status

2002-07-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:57:21AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that I soon will have the time to write a script that automatically registers that systems in my DNS system. As soon as it is written and a bit tested, sure :-) Are you intending to use dyndns? that would be an

Re: Debian 3.0 and the IPv6 status

2002-07-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:30:43AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like I don't have to touch any kernel params as long as the box is atoconfigured. In your case it is not autoconfigured, since you set up the prefix yourself: address 3ffe:0400:0b60::a up echo 0

Re: EUI-64 and ifupdown problems

2001-07-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:39:57PM -0700, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: - it is possible to specify the pseudo default route 2000::/3 eth0 in the ifupdown conf (without using rc.boot scripts) ? I believe you can accomplish this using the up option to the interface and having it do the

Re: gratuitous arp

2001-02-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:06:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to send a gratuitous arp to facilitate an ip-address takeover scheme, so that other machines in the network will have correct ethernet/ip address association. use fake/heartbeat which can do that, or if you want to do

Re: default routes

2001-01-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:27:33PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default routes bounce packets. Having a default route in Linux for IPv6 can often lead to severe hair loss as you tear whatever is remaining out. For reasons best left to the kernel hackers, using default routes just doesn't

Re: ipv6 overview

2000-11-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:30:26AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Is this linked somewhere from http://www.debian.org/devel/ ? yes it is. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush*

typo on v6 page and comment on default route

2000-09-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, the link on http://www.debian.org/~csmall/ipv6/index.html to http://www.misiek.eu.org/ipv6/.en/; seems a bit broken, removing the .en/ helps for me. BTW: using route -A inet6 add default gw 3ffe:1500:5:6::100 will produce: ::/0 3ffe:1500:5:6::100 UG 1 0 0 sit1 and

Re: Problems when setting up tunnel,

2000-09-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:36:47AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: I am having really strange problems when trying to set up ipv6 tunnel, i got a tunnel from a site near-by and to check what's wrong I have also tried to set up freenet6's tunnel. My setup is something like this: ifconfig

Re: connecting to 6bone problem

2000-08-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:42:08PM -0400, William F. Maton wrote: 3ffe is in 2000::/3. 3ffe 2001. They are different /16's. Yes, but both networks 3ffe::/16 and 2001::/16 are covered (in) by a route to 2000::/3 Greetings Bernd

Re: connecting to 6bone problem

2000-08-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:49:17PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Lets imagine here we construct a tunnel from pandora to surf.net: ip tunnel add surfnet mode sit local 132.229.131.40 remote 192.87.106.15 ip link set surfnet up ip addr add 3ffe:600:8000:8::32 dev surfnet Okay. Now we have

Re: connecting to 6bone problem

2000-07-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:58:00PM -0600, Chad wrote: crux:~# route -A inet6 add default gw fe80::206.123.31.102 dev sit1 default: Resolver Error 0 (no error) I have to check this, but it is most likely a problem in route with the default argument, try 2000::/2 instead. Greetings Bernd --

Re: connecting to 6bone problem

2000-07-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 02:57:00AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: I have to check this, but it is most likely a problem in route with the default argument, try 2000::/2 instead. to follow up to myself, this is fixed in the recent net-tools (1.57). Attached is a patch wich should solve

Re: connecting to 6bone problem

2000-07-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:10:12PM -0600, Chad wrote: crux:~# route -A inet6 add default gw 2000::/2 dev sit1 default: Resolver Error 0 (no error) I was talking about route -A inet6 add 2000::/2 gw fe80::206.123.31.102 dev sit1 But I think you can skip the gw fe80::206.123.31.10 here, too.