Debian 6to4 setup

Examples configurations for Debian are available in the account control panel. How to set up IPv6 on Debian, by madduck. Wiki Login. DebianIPv6 last modified Debian privacy policy , Wiki team , bugs and config. You can do this by running these two commands at the console as root:. So now you've got a fancy IPv6 tunnel set up and you want to tell the other machines on your network about it so they can have it too. You'll have to install the radvd package using 'apt-get install radvd'.

Configuring radvd is pretty simple. Now other computers on your local network should get the router advertisement and automatically create an IPv6 address on the network.

Setting up an IPv6 tunnel and router on Debian Squeeze with tunnelbroker. Setting up firewall rules First thing's first.

For example, if your router's public address is Add 1 to the end of this to obtain your router's address, a0a:a in this case. Replace a0a:a with your IPv6 router address, and replace You can now bring the tunnel up with ifup tun6to4 , and you should have IPv6 connectivity. You can manually assign addresses to the hosts on your network, but it will probably be easier to do EUIbased autoconfiguration; this allows each host to automatically select an address based on their MAC address when they receive a router advertisement.

Replace eth0 with the name of your network interface; this is the interface on which router advertisements will be broadcast. You could hardcode your 6to4 prefix, but it's more convenient to use the Base6to4Interface option to have radvd calculate it for you; replace ppp0 with the interface for your public internet connection, and the prefix will be altered accordingly.

If your public internet connection is not on a separate interface, then just remove this option, and replace the prefix address with the full address as shown earlier.