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IPv6 & Linux - HowTo - Part 1

Version: 3.20b from 2001-09-05

(P) & (C) 1997-2001 by Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>, see copyright notice for more details
Original site of publishing: http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/; suggestions, comments and improvements are welcome!

Overview

Contents

What software is needed and available?

See now the IPv6 status page for details.

Where to get all the needed software?

Packages/applications, which are not described  in this HowTo, see IPv6 status page in details.

Distribution

You can buy one on CDs or download one from the Internet.

Newer Kernel

Glibc-2.1/2.2

Several IPv6 applications

Network configuration tools

Remaining software

You should find a copy of some of the code and perhaps needed patches at
 
Location URL Update frequency Comments
Germany (T-Online) ftp://ftp.bieringer.de/pub/linux/IPv6/ master mirror source
Germany (T-Online & WiN) ftp://ftp.argh.org/ipv6/ daily
Germany (WiN) ftp://ftp.uni-muenster.de/pub/IPv6/mirrors/ftp.bieringer.de/pub/linux/IPv6/ also more stuff
Japan ftp://ftp.v6.linux.or.jp/pub/Linux/ daily also more stuff
USA ftp://wrath.wcug.wwu.edu/pub/ipv6/mirrors/ftp.bieringer.de/ daily
Poland ftp://ftp.ps.pl/pub/Linux/IPv6/ daily
Norway ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/IPv6/bieringer/linux/ weekly
Italy ftp://ftp3.linux.it/mirrors/IPv6/ 3 times a week
Portugal ftp://ftp.ipv6.ualg.pt/pub/bieringer/ daily
But always look for the newest one on the given URLs!
If you've recognized there is a newer version out, feel free to send a e-mail to me. Thank you.

In which sequence should the software be installed?

Primary Sequence Order:

  1. Basic Software
  2. Important Applications
  3. IPv6 start-up configuration scripts
  4. Additionals

Notifications:

{option1 | option2} means that you have to use one of this given options
<option3> means that you can use this option or not
fixcharname means most of the time programs (with options) or files on your LINUX system

Hint:

If you have problems to get all the errors and warnings displayed on the small computer screen, then try piping stderr to a file:
Example: make zImage 2>err.txt
Now after end of the compilation you can look at this created file for errors and warnings.

List of links to IPv6 & Linux related information

First, a good starting point for other information: http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/

World Wide Web

Join IPv6 backbone / How to get IPv6 addresses / Where to get a tunnel

Registries
Tunnel brokers - this list is uncomplete, see here for more http://hs247.com/ (right column)
URL Organisation/
Company		 Location Type IPv6 subnet
delegation		 IPv6 address  Reverse delegation How to use with
current setup
scripts
 www.freenet6.net Freenet6
Canada
IPv6-in-IPv4 point-to-point only (anonymous)
 no
depends on current 
local IPv4 address
 Freenet6-example
IPv6-in-IPv4 point-to-point only
(authentication required using special client software)
no
static assigned
coming next
normal IPv6-in-IPv4 
(authentication required using special client software)
yes (/48)
static assigned
in progress
coming next
 http://ipv6tb.he.net Hurricane Electric
US backbone
 normal IPv6-in-IPv4 possible (/64)
HurricaneElectric-example
 https://carmen.cselt.it/ipv6tb/ Centro Studi e
Laboratory
Telecomunicazioni
Italy
 ? ?
Public available 6to4 relay tunnel routers

Latest news and status information

General information

Software

Online test tools

Maillists

Request e-mail address What to subscribe Maillist e-mail address Language On the WWW
Chris Wedgwood (Maintainer, manual add) linux-ipv6 linux-ipv6@list.f00f.org English
majordomo@oss.sgi.com netdev netdev@oss.sgi.com English Archive
majordomo@solarix1.uni-muenster.de ipv6 ipv6@uni-muenster.de German/English URL, Archive
majordomo@isi.edu 6bone 6bone@isi.edu English URL, Archive, Mirror
majordomo@sunroof.eng.sun.com ipng ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com English URL, Archive, Mirror
majordomo@ipv6.org users users@ipv6.org English
majordomo@mfa.eti.br ipv6 ipv6@mfa.eti.br Portuguese URL
Another source containing IPv6 related maillists you can get here.

ZAMA networks is now setting up an archive of some IPv6 related maillists, it's available at Mail Archives on their homepage.