Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-11-15, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-11-15 14:03, Curt wrote: > I recommend a reboot at this point to remove the currently running >> network and to ensure that your network comes up properly. >> >> This is all it takes for a simple case. >> >> Good luck. > > I used to look how long upti

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 02:21:01PM +, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-11-15 14:03, Curt wrote: > I recommend a reboot at this point to remove the currently running > > network and to ensure that your network comes up properly. > > > > This is all it takes for a simple case. > > > > Good luck. >

Rebooting [was: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6]

2022-11-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 02:03:19PM -, Curt wrote: > [...] (whether this is a somehow invalidating reminder of > Microsoft Windows is left as the traditional exercise): I know that smugness. I'm old, after all :-) That said, as age accrues, I've learnt an upside of rebooting after sweeping co

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-15 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-11-15 14:03, Curt wrote: I recommend a reboot at this point to remove the currently running network and to ensure that your network comes up properly. This is all it takes for a simple case. Good luck. I used to look how long uptime was but now I reboot in case I broke something th

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-11-14, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 15/11/22 00:22, Curt wrote: >> On 2022-11-14, jeremy ardley wrote: >>> >>> Network Manager is terrible. Some of the instructions include you having >>> to reboot your system to make chages take. >> What "instructions" would those be, and of what provenan

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Nov 2022 at 05:17:33 (+0800), jeremy ardley wrote: > On 15/11/22 00:22, Curt wrote: > > On 2022-11-14, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > Network Manager is terrible. Some of the instructions include you having > > > to reboot your system to make chages take. > > What "instructions" would

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/11/22 22:34, hw wrote: [...] However, systemd-networkd works as well (and better) with an easier configuration. Hm, then why isn't it the default, and what's network manager for? NetworkManager seems to be a RedHat baby and has some effort put into a GUI. systemd-networkd has not go

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/11/22 00:22, Curt wrote: On 2022-11-14, jeremy ardley wrote: Network Manager is terrible. Some of the instructions include you having to reboot your system to make chages take. What "instructions" would those be, and of what provenance, that require a system reboot rather than a resta

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread Curt
On 2022-11-14, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > Network Manager is terrible. Some of the instructions include you having > to reboot your system to make chages take. What "instructions" would those be, and of what provenance, that require a system reboot rather than a restart of networking to make cha

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread hw
On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 19:23 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 14/11/22 19:14, hw wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 07:50 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > I decided to use systemd-networkd service and removed most of the stuff > > > from /etc/network/interfaces > > > [...] > > Thanks!  I co

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/11/22 19:14, hw wrote: On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 07:50 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: I decided to use systemd-networkd service and removed most of the stuff from /etc/network/interfaces [...] Thanks! I considered installing network manager, but the Debian wiki gave me the impression that it

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread hw
On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 07:50 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 14/11/2022 12:07 am, hw wrote: > >  > Hi, > > the subject says it ... I have an interface that is being > configured > with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via dhcp. I need to assign an >  > addi

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-14 Thread hw
On Sun, 2022-11-13 at 19:49 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 13/11/2022 16:07, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the subject says it ... I have an interface that is being configured with > > IPv4 > > and IPv6 addresses via dhcp.  I need to assign an additional I

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-13 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/11/2022 7:50 am, jeremy ardley wrote: > How do I additionally assign fd53::40/16? I faced exactly the same problem on a recent new install of Debian 11. I decided to use systemd-networkd service and removed most of the stuff from /etc/network/interfaces This is my /etc/systemd/network

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-13 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/11/2022 12:07 am, hw wrote: > Hi, > > the subject says it ... I have an interface that is being configured > with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via dhcp. I need to assign an > additional IPv6 address to the interface. > > > > How do I additionally assign fd53::

Re: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On 13/11/2022 16:07, hw wrote: Hi, the subject says it ... I have an interface that is being configured with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via dhcp. I need to assign an additional IPv6 address to the interface. This is all very easy with network-manager but that seems to be kinda deprecated and

how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6

2022-11-13 Thread hw
Hi, the subject says it ... I have an interface that is being configured with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via dhcp. I need to assign an additional IPv6 address to the interface. This is all very easy with network-manager but that seems to be kinda deprecated and we're supposed to us

Re: Invisible IPv6 addresses

2019-12-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:41:21 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > This may be what you have: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses Thank you. As per my other mail, it turns out that it's apparently this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanisms#NAT64 https://en.w

[Solved] Re: Invisible IPv6 addresses

2019-12-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:27:51 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 04:54:17PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > But the IPv6 address e:f:g:h:i:j:k:l is not actually configured > > anywhere on the router (as shown by 'ip a' and other tools)! > > Either there's some IPv6 - IPv4 conver

Re: Invisible IPv6 addresses

2019-12-18 Thread John Hasler
This may be what you have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Invisible IPv6 addresses

2019-12-17 Thread Reco
at you're given a /64 block of IPv6 addresses (whenever it's DHCPv6, RA or static configuration). But you can clear things out easily. Can you establish an outbound connection from the router via IPv6? Something like this should do it: curl https://ipv6.google.com Reco

Invisible IPv6 addresses

2019-12-17 Thread Celejar
Hi, [Somewhat off-topic, since this is a general networking topic:] I have Verizon Fios residential internet service. Verizon is notoriously cagey about its deployment of IPv6 for residential service [1], but I don't seem to officially have it - my router (running OpenWrt) tries dhcp6 but fails t

Re: IPv6 addresses

2019-02-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/02/2019 à 04:00, Richard Hector a écrit : However, it's starting to look like the router actually does advertise the ULA as well (I thought it didn't) AFAIK, a router does not advertise a prefix by itself, if it has not been configured to do so. It just appears that the idea of using

Re: IPv6 addresses

2019-02-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 8/02/19 8:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> Huh ? Isn't it the autoconfigured address you expect to get from an "auto" >> stanza ? > I bet there's at least a little confusion between > > auto ens3 > > and > > iface ens3 inet6 auto > > the first one tells the system to bring ens3 up at boot time; >

Re: IPv6 addresses

2019-02-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 8/02/19 8:08 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 07/02/2019 à 10:15, Richard Hector a écrit : >>> >>> # this one should hopefully configure via SLAAC >>> iface ens3 inet6 auto >>> >>> # this one is for my static stuff (using a ULA prefix) >>> iface ens3 inet6 static >>>    address 2001:db8::1/64 >>>

Re: IPv6 addresses

2019-02-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 07/02/2019 à 10:15, Richard Hector a écrit : > > > > > > # this one should hopefully configure via SLAAC > > > iface ens3 inet6 auto > > > > > > # this one is for my static stuff (using a ULA prefix) > > > iface ens3 inet6 static > > >address 2001:db8::1/64 > > >

Re: IPv6 addresses

2019-02-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/02/2019 à 10:15, Richard Hector a écrit : # this one should hopefully configure via SLAAC iface ens3 inet6 auto # this one is for my static stuff (using a ULA prefix) iface ens3 inet6 static address 2001:db8::1/64 up ip -6 route add ... up ip -6 route add ... up ip -6 route ad

Re: IPv6 addresses

2019-02-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 7/02/19 10:05 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > Tipped off by a comment on here, and confirmed I think by reading the > manpage, it seems I should be able to set multiple addresses on an > interface by using multiple iface stanzas for the same interface in > /etc/network/interfaces. > >

IPv6 addresses

2019-02-07 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, Tipped off by a comment on here, and confirmed I think by reading the manpage, it seems I should be able to set multiple addresses on an interface by using multiple iface stanzas for the same interface in /etc/network/interfaces. So I have something like this: iface ens3 inet static

RFC4193 IPv6 addresses seem not to be completly supported : default gateway not set

2007-11-13 Thread Guy Widloecher
Hello, I made the following tests on ETCH and SID with the same result. I tested on COMPAQ Deskpro EN and VMware machines (the captures below are taken from the VMware machine) . RFC4193 defines fc00::/8 and fd00::/8 IPv6 addresses known as "Local IPv6 addresses" and stated that

Re: Multilpe IPv6 addresses in interfaces

2006-10-27 Thread Pupeno
Can anybody confirm that this is not possible ? if so, I'll submit a feature request. On Thursday 26 October 2006 23:40, Pupeno wrote: > Hello, > I need to configure multiple IPv6 addresses on the same interface of a > Debian box. I need the configuration that would have the same

Multilpe IPv6 addresses in interfaces

2006-10-26 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I need to configure multiple IPv6 addresses on the same interface of a Debian box. I need the configuration that would have the same effect as `ip addr add IP dev eth0`. I tried adding another device, eth0:0, but that caused problems: two devices with the same MAC address turns into two

ifconfig eth0 inet ... adds non-working IPv6 addresses

2004-06-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The following line (executed by the dhclient script on my machine) ifconfig eth0 inet 152.81.2.43 netmask 255.255.240.0 broadcast 152.81.15.255 creates IPv6 addresses (starting with 2001: and 2002:), given by "ifconfig eth0". The problem is that these addresses do not work (well, at