I need some info about ipv6 in warty

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

I did a

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/$DEV/forwarding

where $DEV is the configured IPv6 interface, and now IPv6 is working
as expected.  Perhaps it will work for you, too...

Cheers,

  // Klaus

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:17:10 +0100, Alexander Volovics <awol at home.nl> wrote:
> 
> I have added and alias 'eth0:1' to 'eth0' on my laptop with warty.
> (So I can connect to my home network. By the way the I had problems
>  using the gui 'network-admin' to do this. In the end I just added
>  the necessary entries to /etc/network/interfaces by hand).
> 
> So far this works as it should, however the entry and statistics
> for 'sit0' have disappeared from /sbin/ifconfig!
> 
> /sbin/lsmod shows that 'ipv6' is loaded and running.
> 
> Should something be done to the configuration of ipv6 to correct this.
> Where and how can this be done. I know next to nothing about ipv6,
> except why it was introduced, and I am still groping my way about
> warty.
> 
> I have googled but find nothing simple enough for a 'quick fix' or
> directly relevant to warty.

-- 
Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Copenhagen  ·  Denmark