Re[2]: Enabling IPv6
I'd guess that you had another kernel image or a self-compiled kernel
before. The bf2.4 kernel-image doesn't support IPv6. You have to and
should install either another precompiled kernel-image or recompile the
kernel for yourself.
It took my a while to figure this out ...
Teun Vink <teun@moonblade.net> wrote on 26 Feb 2003 13:48:06 +0100:
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 13:11, Hobbs, Richard wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How exactly do i enable IPv6 in woody?? i used to have it running, but my hard
> > disk crashed, and in setting the new machine up, i couldn't find a place to
> > enable it. i thought it was enabled by default, but i guess not.
> >
> > I have another machine on my LAN running IPv6 you see, and i'd like to get them
> > communicating, and eventually maybe join 6bone.net.
> >
> > If someone can either reply to this email offering some assistance, or reply to
> > this same question on the link below, i'd greatly appreciate it. There's more
> > info on the forum post as well (ifconfig output for example).
>
> Since your ipconfig output doesn't even show an inet6 address with scope
> Link, it looks like your kernel doesn't support IPv6... so make sure
> CONFIG_IPV6 is set to 'y' in your kernel configuration.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards
Dominik Schulz
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