On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:08 -0500, Vadtec wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A few months back, I tried to use the network scripts to provision an IPv6 range > like can be done with IPv4. I was using CentOS 5.2 at the time and was informed > that 5.2 was broken in this regard. I have upgraded to CentOS 5.3 now and I am > trying to get IPv6 to provision an entire range of IPs, but I am still getting > the old behavior and no IPs are being provisioned. > > I have been following the docs provided by the link in the > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipv6 at > http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/initscripts-ipv6.html#id2801589 and using the > following configs: > > /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > GATEWAY=***.***.***.*** > GATEWAYDEV=eth0 > HOSTNAME=vadtec > > NETWORKING_IPV6=yes > IPV6FORWARDING=no > IPV6_AUTOCONF=no > IPV6_AUTOTUNNEL=no > IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=eth0:1 > IPV6_DEFAULTGW=2001:0470:0103:001A::1 > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-1 Why do you need an alias device here? Put the ipv6 config on the eth0 device,and add the configuration to the ifcfg-eth0 file > DEVICE=eth0:1 > IPV6INIT=yes > IPV6ADDR=2001:0470:0103:001A:0001:0000:0000:0000:/96 You are allocating a /96 with all 0 in the last 32 bits. So you are not allocating an address. Why a /96? Using a /64 is pretty much the standard for ipv6. > IPV6_AUTOCONF=no > IPV6_ROUTER=no > IPV6FORWARDING=no > ONBOOT=no > > When I run service network restart, it doesn't even provision the default IPv6 > GW on eth0:1, nor does eth0:1 even show up. I must admit I never tried an v6 address on an alias, so I have no clue whether it works or not. But you can have both v4 and v6 addresses next to each other on the eth0 device > > If I run tail /var/log/boot.log, boot.log is empty. If I run tail > /var/log/messages, I see varying amounts of: > > Jun 10 11:42:14 localhost kernel: [208192.884652] eth0: duplicate address detected! > Probably due to the all 0 in the part AFTER the /96 > I see no other errors or messages saying anything is wrong or otherwise. Autoconfiguration is the way to go if you want to make it easy. On my server I set the addresses manually like DEVICE=eth0.159 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 HWADDR=00:1a:92:d6:99:91 IPADDR=192.168.159.1 #GATEWAY=192.168.178.1 TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=yes IPV6FORWARDING="yes" # v6 address changed to protect the innocent IPV6ADDR="2001:888:118e:18a2::1/64" PEERDNS=no VLAN=yes Please not that I am using vlans, hence the .159 on the eth0. Normally you do not need that and you leave the VLAN=yes off. Please note the ::1 at the end of the address. I use radvd on that machine (so here I need to set fixed v6 addresses), but the clients do not neede that: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none DNS1=192.168.159.1 IPADDR=192.168.159.3 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 HWADDR=00:11:d8:be:98:fa ONBOOT=yes SEARCH="pheasant" USERCTL=no PEERDNS=no IPV6INIT=yes NM_CONTROLLED=yes GATEWAY=192.168.159.1 TYPE=Ethernet Here the address is set depending on the (/64) prefix received from the radvd server..... kind regards, Louis