Technical data
B. Appendixes to optional packages
The last two settings are not absolutely necessary for a working IPv6 subnet but are very
helpful. They serve to spread additional information on the IPv6 subnet, i.e. IPv6 address of
the DNS server and the domain used. The DNS server even may be published in two ways.
Because different systems have different preferences it is of advantage to activate both methods
(RDNSS via router advertisements and DHCPv6).
Test
The whole IPv6-configuration of this example (DNS_SUPPORT_IPV6='yes' is assumed!) looks
like this:
IPV6_NET_N='1'
IPV6_NET_1='0:0:0:456::1/64' # IPv6-address of the routers (without
# Subnet-prefix) + subnet mask
IPV6_NET_1_DEV='eth0' # network interface for this IPv6-subnet
IPV6_NET_1_ADVERTISE='yes' # /64-subnetz-prefix and default-route per RA
IPV6_NET_1_ADVERTISE_DNS='yes' # DNS-server per RA
IPV6_NET_1_DHCP='yes' # Domain-name and DNS-server per DHCPv6
IPV6_TUNNEL_N='1'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_PREFIX='2001:db8:123::/48' # /48-subnet mask
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_LOCALV4='dynamic' # or fixed local IPv4-address
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_REMOTEV4='212.224.0.188'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_LOCALV6='2001:db8:900:551::2/64'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_REMOTEV6='2001:db8:900:551::1'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_TYPE='sixxs'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_USERID='USER1-SIXXS'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_PASSWORD='sixxs'
IPV6_TUNNEL_1_TUNNELID='T1234'
With a fli4l like this a normally configured Windows 7 host should automatically configure
its IPv6 address, default route, DNS server and domain and thus make the computer IPv6
capable. This can be verified e.g. with a simple PING from the Windows host to the IPv6
internet. In the following example we try to reach the fli4l.de webserver from the Windows
PC (we directly use the IPv6 address here to avoid assumption of correct DNS functionality):
C:\>ping 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132
Ping executed for 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132 with 32 bytes data:
Answer from 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132: time=104ms
Answer from 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132: time=102ms
Answer from 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132: time=106ms
Answer from 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132: time=106ms
Ping-Statistics for 2001:bf0:c000:a::2:132:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, lost = 0 (0% lost),
time in millisecs.:
Minimum = 102ms, Maximum = 106ms, Average = 104ms
Yo can try to use the tool “traceroute” (in Windows: “tracert”) in order to examine whether
a packet is routed correctly. An example from the local network of the author is found below.
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