[CentOS] CentOS 6 and IPv6 neighbor proxy

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Thu Aug 18 15:16:27 UTC 2011


On 08/18/2011 11:10 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote:
>
> To route a subnet in ipv6 there are two possibilities:
>
> -add route commands for the subnet in each computer
>
> -or use neighbor proxy in the router server
>
> I prefer neighbor proxy.
>
> So I have to activate neighbor proxy in the router:
>
> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp=1
>
> and I have to add entries for each client in the subnet like
>
> ip -6 neigh add proxy 2001:0:0:1:211:d8ff:fe97:3273 dev eth0
>
> This works well but is lost on reboot.
>
> For the sysctl command there is /etc/sysctl.conf for permanent configuration.
>
> If I create a file route-eth0 in the directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ with the above ip neighbor command, the interface eth0 is immediately down.
>
> Restart of network brings:
>
> Bringing up interface eth0:  Error: Unknown connection: 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03.
>
>                                                            [FAILED]
>
> All Interfaces are NetworkManager controlled.
>
> Ask for help:
>
> -where can I store the command for a permanent configuration?
>
> -Shall I not further use NetworkManager?
>
> Thank you for help in advance
>
> Helmut
>
>
I would never use NetworkManager on a server.  It has never caused me anything but problems.

My $.02


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