ipv6

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

What's the best way to get started in IPv6 in Debian?  I've installed the
iputils-ping package and am running kernel 2.4.0-test7 on one machine and
2.4.0-test4 on another.

Have the following in /etc/hosts on both machines:
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

"ping6 ip6-loopback" works fine.  I try ping6 on any of the other IPv6
addresses and get the following:
ping6 ip6-allnodes
connect: Invalid argument

Same for all the other ipv6 addresses.
ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:A4:E6:6C:02
          inet addr:10.200.16.212  Bcast:10.200.19.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:a4ff:fee6:6c02/10 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:83258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:73912 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:27
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300

So I have an inet6 address on eth0 as soon as I do "modprobe ipv6".  What is
the way to ping it?

Here is my routing table:
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination                                 Next Hop
    Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
::1/128                                     ::
    U     0      23       1 lo
fe80::210:a4ff:fee6:6c02/128                ::
    U     0      0        0 lo
fe80::/10                                   ::
    UA    256    0        0 eth0
ff02::1/128                                 ff02::1
    UAC   0      1        1 eth0
ff00::/8                                    ::
    UA    256    0        0 eth0
::/0                                        ::
    UDA   256    0        0 eth0


Here is the results when I try to use one of the site-local addresses:
root@lyta:/etc#ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0:0:0:1:2c0:6cff:fe00:f043
Don't know how to set addresses for family 10.


Does anyone have any ideas?


Russell Coker