Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 576

30.2.4 Configuring IPv6
To configure IPv6, you do not normally need to make any changes on the individual
workstations. IPv6 is enabled by default. You can disable it during installation in the
network configuration step described in
or enable IPv6 on an installed system, use YaST Network Card. Do not change the
method and click Next. Then select a card and click Advanced > IPv6 in the Address
tab. To enable IPv6 manually, 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.
30.2.5 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.ipv6.org/
The starting point for everything about IPv6.
http://www.ipv6day.org
All information needed to start your own IPv6 network.
http://www.ipv6-to-standard.org/
The list of IPv6-enabled products.
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
Here, find the Linux IPv6-HOWTO and many links related to the topic.
RFC 2640
The fundamental RFC about IPv6.
558 Installation and Administration
Section 3.11.3, "Network" (page 33). To disable