Mark, Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion of adding the -- -6 option to the start-stop-daemon lines in /etc/init.d/ssh. I then tried to connect to the host with ssh and ssh -6. Both attempts succeded, as shown in the subsequent netstat -A inet6 -an
Script started on Sun Dec 29 09:38:04 2002 p90:/home/russ# netstat -A inet6 -an Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 ::ffff:192.168.1.1:22 ::ffff:192.168.1.2:3238 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 3ffe:b80:1853:1:250::22 3ffe:b80:1853:1:25:3239 ESTABLISHED p90:/home/russ# exit Script done on Sun Dec 29 09:38:19 2002 It represents my IPv4 connection with a IPv6 style address, however. Does this imply that both connections are actually ip6 connections? Would you mind sending me the sample lines from your sshd_config file where you configured two listening lines with explicit addresses? Thanks, Russ On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:40:48PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > > netstat -A inet6 -an results in the following > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > > tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN > > > > This shows that sshd is not listening to port 22 of an ipv6 address. > > If you add '-- -6' to the end of the start-stop-daemon lines in > /etc/init.d/ssh, and then restart it, it should start listening to > your ipv6 address. It might, stop listening to ipv4 though, so try it > and see. > > Another thing to try is to put actual addresses in the ListenAddress > lines of sshd_config (and uncomment them). You can use multiple lines, > one for v4 and one for v6. This is how I have it set up on my OpenBSD > box which accepts ssh connections in both v4 and v6. > > -- Mark > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]