Dear Peter,
Adding ipv6 address is not the deal.
Question(s):
How do you connect to the internet ?
Do you connect through pppoe (point-to-point-over-ethernet) or over ppoa
(point-to-point-over-atm) ?
Does your modem handle the dialin for you automatically?
In this case there are 2 other choices (NAT Router) or bridged mode.
Tell us a bit more about your topologie, and how you enter the internet.
best, Tamer
On 2019-12-05 15:38, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Having been inspired by the recent discussion of IPv6, I decided to try it,
starting with my ISP, my Billion Bipac vDSL modem-router and one host - this
one. Of course it isn't straightforward.
Zen has allocated me a /64 ND prefix and a /48 PD prefix. I found a way to
tell the Bipac to set up IPv6, and rebooted it; it now tells me its LAN
address is 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba/64. Nslookup on this host says
the same, without the /64. But then this:
$ ping6 vdsl
ping: vdsl: No address associated with hostname
$ ping6 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba
PING 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba(2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:
8eba) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a02:8010:663d:0:6203:47ff:fe2d:8eba: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=1.75 ms
^C
If I add the LAN address of the Bipac to /etc/hosts, ping finds it okay, but
what if the address changes if the Bipac reboots? I thought this kind of
address fixing was unnecessary in IPv6.
And am I supposed to fix the IPv6 addresses of the other hosts on the LAN, or
just stick to IPv4 for local comms? And I haven't yet even thought about the
wireless devices served by the Bipac, though I see my mobile phone has
acquired an IPv6 address starting with fe80::40be... and it doesn't look like
its MAC address.
