I find radvd works well for IPv6 address allocation. I just start-up a computer, query it's address, and enter that into my /etc/hosts file on the server running dnsmasq. Assuming you have a static IPv6 address for your network, that should be all that is needed. If you have a dynamic IPv6 address for your network, then you'll probably need to write a script to update the prefixes when necessary.
If you want a almost plug and play IPv6 solution, I cannot recommend TomatoUSB highly enough. The only IPv6 problems I noticed yesterday is that the HE tunnel is just too slow... Although it was sort of fun watching the NCIX sales list continuously scroll as it loaded a single image every second or so. Bill On 06/08/2011 10:54 AM, Ed W wrote:
Although not directly related to dnsmasq, I'm hoping to get a bit of a leg up from somewhere on ipv6 best practices right now... I have a (UK) ISP (idnet) which alleges to offer me IPV6 range, but at present my PPPOE router (airport express) is not obviously receiving an IPV6 range. I suspect the router is the problem, but lets leave that for the moment. The allocated range is believed to be static/persistent. Next up is how to allocate my ipv6 range inside the office. In the past I have used static IPs for servers and other interesting bits of gear (phones/printers), with dnsmasq handing out dhcp addresses for everything else and also managing the dns mapping to the static ips. I can't get my head around the best practice of what we should be doing with ipv6 though - seems like it's meant to be all automatic, but then how to give machines meaningful dns addresses? Finally, I use a bunch of linux-vserver guests, effectively a low overhead type of virtualisation. Any tips on how others handle allocating ipv6 to virtual servers? At present I use something like a static (class C) IPV4 where the last octet is used also as the guests "unique id" (vserver housekeeping requirement to allocate all machines a unique 32bit id) Any tips or pointers on getting started here, especially if the answer is to look somewhere else..? Thanks Ed W P.S. I do get the very basics of ipv6, I'm looking for implementation suggestions rather than "what is it"... _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
