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porarily until the next reboot, enter modprobe -i ipv6 as root. It is basically
impossible to unload the ipv6 module once loaded.
Because of the autoconguration concept of IPv6, the network card is assigned an ad-
dress in the link-local network. Normally, no routing table management takes place on
a workstation. The network routers can be queried by the workstation, using the router
advertisement protocol, for what prex and gateways should be implemented. The
radvd program can be used to set up an IPv6 router. This program informs the worksta-
tions which prex to use for the IPv6 addresses and which routers. Alternatively, use
zebra/quagga for automatic conguration of both addresses and routing.
Consult the ifcfg-tunnel (5) man page to get information about how to set up various
types of tunnels using the /etc/sysconfig/network les.
21.2.5 For More Information
The above overview does not cover the topic of IPv6 comprehensively. For a more in-
depth look at the new protocol, refer to the following online documentation and books:
http://www.ipv6.org/
The starting point for everything about IPv6.
http://www.ipv6day.org
All information needed to start your own IPv6 network.
http://www.ipv6-to-standard.org/
The list of IPv6-enabled products.
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
Here, nd the Linux IPv6-HOWTO and many links related to the topic.
RFC 2640
The fundamental RFC about IPv6.
IPv6 Essentials
A book describing all the important aspects of the topic is IPv6 Essentials by Silvia
Hagen (ISBN 0-596-00125-8).
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