On 7/5/2012 12:38 PM, Andreas Rittershofer wrote: > Am 05.07.2012 um 17:53 schrieb Brad Clarke: > >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andreas Rittershofer >> <andr...@rittershofer.de> wrote: >>> Am 05.07.2012 um 16:17 schrieb Tom Eastep: >>> >>>> On 07/05/2012 12:35 AM, Andreas Rittershofer wrote: >>>>> I want to test shorewall6 in a scenario with several virtual >>>>> machines. Each virtual machine has the interface eth0. >>>>> >>>>> With IPv4, I would assign an IP-alias to eth0:1 and so would have >>>>> eth0 and eth0:1 as interfaces for shorewall6. >>>>> >>>>> How is this done with IPv6? >>>> I am unclear on the question; are you asking how to assign both an IPv4 >>>> and an IPv6 address to an interface? If you are using your >>> No, this is not my problem. >>> >>> I have ONE virtual machine which I want to use for testing shorewall6. This >>> virtual machine has one network interface: eth0 >>> >>> With IPv4 it would be no problem to assign this interface two ip-addresses >>> AND to have two interface names: eth0:0 and eth0:1 for example. But I want >>> to test shorewall6. >>> >>> How do I assign this interface two IPv6-addresses in a way that I have two >>> interface names - one for each IPv6-address? >>> >>> I need two different interface names for the configuration of shorewall6, >>> because our real firewall has two physical network interfaces and I want to >>> test the setup with this virtual machine. >>> >> I'd just give the VM a second virtual NIC. Is some cases aliased >> interfaces function differently than physical ones so you'll get a >> better test this way. >> > > And exactly this is my problem. > > How do I do this with IPv6-addresses? eth0:0 and eth0:1 as with IPv4 won't > work. > > > Viele Grüße > > Andreas Rittershofer > After configuring the 2nd NIC in the VM, for Red Hat and derivatives configure ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips. Along with the usual configuration, in each file use: IPV6INIT=yes IPV6ADDR=fdbd:68bf:4504:f18b:3::1/64
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