[CentOS] IPv6 range provisioning question

Louis Lagendijk louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl
Thu Jun 11 21:01:33 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 14:46 -0500, Vadtec wrote:
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> Ok, firstly, I have dropped using the alias notation and am now working solely
> on eth0.
> 
> Secondly, yes, I am talking about provisioning more than *one* IP at a time as
> being a "range".
> 
> As for IPV6ADDR_SECONDARIES, when I use the following config:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> DEVICE=eth0
> IPADDR=***.***.***.***
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> BROADCAST=***.***.***.***
> ONBOOT=yes
> 
> IPV6INIT=yes
> IPV6ADDR="2001:0470:0103:001A::2/64"
> IPV6ADDR_SECONDARIES="2001:0470:0103:001A::3-2001:0470:0103:001A::FFFF"
> IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
> IPV6_ROUTER=no
> IPV6FORWARDING=no
> PEERDNS=no
> VLAN=no
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> Shutting down interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
> Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
> Bringing up loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
> Bringing up interface eth0:  ERROR    : [ipv6_test_ipv6_addr_valid] Given IPv6
> address '2001:0470:0103:001A::3-FFFF' is not valid
> WARN     : [ipv6_add_route] 'No route to host' adding route '::/0' via gateway
> '2001:0470:0103:001A::1' through device 'eth0'
the file /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.25/sysconfig.txt does NOT
mention the - for ranges either, so I guess you are out of luck. 
Louis




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