Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 17:33 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 15:02 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Doing my first baby steps with IPv6, I've just now come across the issue of the default gateway. It's easy enough to set up manually or with YaST, but apparently it's no longer necessary due to the "Neighbor Discovery Protocol":"Router Solicitation"? If you get an ipv6 address from your ISP it might not be needed. Yes, I have an IPv6 network that was allocated by my ISP. I set up a default route like this: "ip -6 add default dev ppp0" - it looks
Hans Witvliet wrote: like I would otherwise have to get the box to issue an ICMPV6:Router_Solicitation, but how do I do that?
You could run your own radvd (Router ADVertisement Disovery daemon). radvd is pretty simple.
Yeah, I came across that whilst googling. Also rtsold for the receiving end.
I was also interested in local systems though - they would all go through the gateway machine, but unless I configure a permanent default ipv6 route, I don't see how they would get it.
Once you have a router discovery service running on any host on the subnet it will just-work, for default route anyway. Usually this is provided by the router itself (like a Cisco router).
It all sounds a little overengineered for my purposes. The default gateway will never change, so AFAICT I might as well just define a default route instead of running rtsold ? What do you do - are you running e.g. rtsold on all your systems? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org