Basic IPv6 network configuration for Linux
Today I'll write on how to configure Linux with IPv6. Today we'll go directly to the practice since in an older post I wrote about IPv6 addresses. Verify if the system has IPv6 enabled The IPv6 module is integrated since kernel 2.4.x even though it's not always enable. With this command we can verify if it is or not enable: test -f /proc/net/if_inet6 && echo "Enable" If it returns the message "Enable" this means that it's enable (obvious). If not we activate it with the next commands. For Ubuntu or similars: modprobe ipv6 And if we want the IPv6 module to be loaded at boot time we add the word ipv6 to the end of this file: /etc/modules For Fedora or similars We edit this file: /etc/sysconfig/network And we add this line to the file: NETWORKING_IPV6=yes Now that we added it we restart the network service. Also if we want to allow the forwarding of IPv6 packages in our computer we apply these co...