On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterachilds@gmail.com">peterachilds@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/8/12 James Laver <<a href="mailto:gllug@jameslaver.com">gllug@jameslaver.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On 12 Aug 2009, at 11:12, Peter Childs wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Can I be really stupid, and ask how do I create an IP6 Lan using<br>
>> Linux? It seams that you can tell linux to connect to an IPv6 Lan but<br>
>> how do I create such a thing.<br>
>><br>
>> I suspect I need to update my DNS and DHCP (all running inside the<br>
>> LAN) but how? Until setting up a IPv6 subnet is easy nobody is going<br>
>> to to use it. I also guess I need to set the firewall/router to<br>
>> convert between IPv4/6<br>
>><br>
>> I'm looking at updating my IPv4 Lan behind a multi cast firewall<br>
>> currently using 192.168.* ips<br>
>><br>
>> Peter.<br>
><br>
> By reading the 'route' and 'iptables' man pages and allocating a<br>
> machine as your router?<br>
><br>
> Or better still by buying something that just works.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>But this is a Linux List, I'd better switch to Windows then (If I want<br>
somthing that appently "Just Works (TM)"). (Not that I suspect that<br>
would help in this case :)) (Linux had IPv6 10 years before Windows<br>
even thought about it.<br>
<br>
All I want is a simple howto.<br></blockquote></div><br>I breifly mentioned radvd, the router advertising daemon in my previous post- it performs a similar function to dhcpd in that it advertises a router so that clients can autoconfigure themselves.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.linuxhq.com/IPv6/radvd.html">http://www.linuxhq.com/IPv6/radvd.html</a><br><br>It's very simple to setup and once running anything that supports IPv6 on your lan should automatically start working.<br>
<br>Rob.<br>