Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 576

IMPORTANT: The 6bone Initiative
In the heart of the "old-time" Internet, there is already a globally distributed
network of IPv6 subnets that are connected through tunnels. This is the 6bone
network (http://www.6bone.net), an IPv6 test environment that may be
used by programmers and Internet providers who want to develop and offer
IPv6-based services to gain the experience necessary to implement the new
protocol. More information can be found on the project's Internet site.
31.2.4 Configuring IPv6
To configure IPv6, you do not normally need to make any changes on the individual
workstations. However, IPv6 support must be loaded. To do this, enter modprobe ipv6
as root.
Because of the autoconfiguration concept of IPv6, the network card is assigned an ad-
dress in the link-local network. Normally, no routing table management takes place on
a workstation. The network routers can be queried by the workstation, using the router
advertisement protocol, for what prefix and gateways should be implemented. The
radvd program can be used to set up an IPv6 router. This program informs the worksta-
tions which prefix to use for the IPv6 addresses and which routers. Alternatively, use
zebra for automatic configuration of both addresses and routing.
Consult the ifup(8) man page to get information about how to set up various types of
tunnels using the /etc/sysconfig/network files.
31.2.5 For More Information
The above overview does not cover the topic of IPv6 comprehensively. For a more in-
depth look at the new protocol, refer to the following online documentation and books:
http://www.ngnet.it/e/cosa-ipv6.php
An article series providing a well-written introduction to the basics of IPv6. A good
primer on the topic.
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
Here, find the Linux IPv6-HOWTO and many links related to the topic.
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