On 05/06/10 01:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > H.S. put forth on 6/4/2010 11:06 PM: > > >> Also, I am supposed to dial the ppp connection and obtain an IPv6 >> address from my ISP (as opposed to using a static one). > > If this is truly the case, why did your ISP give you static IPv6 addresses? I > believe you misunderstand the situation.
Yes, quite likely I am not understanding this properly. So, I get that I have a fixed IP range in IPv6. > >> Can somebody help in this problem? > > Yes, I can. Disable dhcp6. You've already bound a static IPv6 address to > eth1 but you didn't configure a gateway address. Configure a correct IPv6 > gateway address for eth1. This should have been provided by your ISP along > with the static IPv6 addresses. If not, ask them for it. That is what I had originally in mind. But I have read in some forums that with my ISP pppoe connection obtains an IPv6 address. Let me call up my ISP and clarify this. I will report back how it all goes. > > Once you have done these things and restarted your interfaces, test IPv6 > functionality from the firewall host itself, using ping, tracert, etc. Don't > bother testing IPv6 routing or NAT until you've verified you can ping a remote > internet host over IPv6 directly from eth1. After you've confirmed that you > can tackle LAN host IPv6 issues, if any exist. > Okay. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hudmh5$ar...@dough.gmane.org
