Host Nereus is running Red Hat Linux version 8 with kernel 2.4.18-14.
After the fresh install from the Red hat Distribution CD the following
are the steps needed to have IPV6 running:
We also added Name Service using the RIPE IPV6 Name Server:
The current kernel version has a problem with ping6, which will
return a "No route to host" even if the ICMP replies have been
received.
> ping6 www.6bone.net
PING www.6bone.net(3ffe:b00:c18:1::10) 56 data bytes
ping: recvmsg: No route to host
ping: recvmsg: No route to host
ping: recvmsg: No route to host
ping: recvmsg: No route to host
ping: recvmsg: No route to host
The workaround is to specify the size of the ICMP packets to be
smaller that 45 bytes, as:
> ping6 www.6bone.net
PING 3ffe:b00:c18:1::10(3ffe:b00:c18:1::10) from 2001:400:0e10:0:240:5ff:fe41:c7f4 : 37 data bytes
45 bytes from 3ffe:b00:c18:1::10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=282 ms
45 bytes from 3ffe:b00:c18:1::10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=280 ms
45 bytes from 3ffe:b00:c18:1::10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=279 ms
--- 3ffe:b00:c18:1::10 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 279.279/280.481/282.127/1.204 ms
Version 4 of NTP is supporting IPv6 (for more information look at
http://www.ntp.org).
Note= in reality only the most current version available for
download supports IPv6; the production version does not support
it.
On nereus we have installed version 1.74 and we are now running an
ntpd synchronized with the IPv6 NTP server at Viagenie
(more information at http://www.viagenie.qc.ca/en/ipv6/ntpv6/utilisation.shtml)
Version 9 of Bind has full support for IPv6 (for more information
refer to ISC Bind
Page)
Installation is pretty straightforward: the configuration file
defines a caching only name server that allows connection from
clients on the same network, i.e. the SLAC IPv6 test network for
the moment.
Installation of the Perl module Pinger.pm has required additional modules, that were not part of the perl distribution on the machine: