[Gllug] Debian's 'interfaces', IPv6 and aliases

[Christof Meerwald]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:30:11 +0100, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> I don't know if I'm doing things wrong here, but having a mixed IPv4 and IPv6 /etc/network/interfaces in Debian appears to be un-supported. Am I correct? Having:
>
> auto eth0 inet static
> 	blah
>
> auto eth0 inet6 static
> 	blah
>
> Gives and error when the network is brought up. Googling offers no help, nor does Debian's documentation. They only document 6to4 and tunnel setups for some reason.

Works fine for me here (on Ubuntu 10.04):

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        blah

iface eth0 inet6 static
        blah

What errors do you get - and have you tried looking at the output of
"ifup -v eth0"?


Christof

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