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Hint: local <ipv4> in ifup/-down scripts
[de] Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:26:23
It seems so, that the documentation of the ifup/-down scripts act not as written in the manual. I only use Debian, so it might be only a issue of debian stable. Problem: If you want to run your IPv6-in-IPv4-tunnel on a machine with more than one ip, you have to specify the ipv4-address of your end of the tunnel. Normally you do this in the cmdline with: # ip tunnel add sixxs mode sit local <your-ipv4-address> remote <endpoint-ipv4> To make this permanent after reboot, there are the ifup/-down-scripts. When you make it the way written in the manual, the line "local <ipv4>" gets ignored. Solution:
iface sixxs inet6 v4tunnel address <your-ipv6-address> netmask <your-ipv6-netmask> [bold]endpoint <pop-ipv4> local <your-tunnel-ending-ipv4>[/bold] gateway <pop-ipv6> ttl 64 up ip link set mtu 1280 dev sixxs
Hope this helps. Greets, Kai Baumgart
Hint: local <ipv4> in ifup/-down scripts
[ch] Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff on Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:32:02
There is a very easy solution to this: Upgrade to the latest Debian unstable tree as that supports IPv6 much better than the Debian 'stable' tree. FYI... unstable is *very* stable, one only has to pay attention for broken packages. I would rather call unstable 'steaminghot' though ;) Also you might want to change your config to: (thus the local on a seperate line)
iface sixxs inet6 v4tunnel address <your-ipv6-address> netmask <your-ipv6-netmask> endpoint <pop-ipv4> local <your-tunnel-ending-ipv4> gateway <pop-ipv6> ttl 64 up ip link set mtu 1280 dev sixxs

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