[CentOS] Configuring ipv6 reboot persistence, CentOS 5.6

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running a CentOS 5.6 server through linode. I am atempting to
> configure it for ipv6, previously this had been done though not by me
> on a ubuntu box so the hardware can take it. I've got an ipv6 tunnel
> through Hurricane Electric and at a shell prompt have done the
> following:
>
> ifconfig sit0 up
> ifconfig sit0 inet6 tunnel ::IPV4 Address
> ifconfig sit1 up
> ifconfig sit1 inet6 add IPV6 Address
> route -A inet6 add ::/0 dev sit1
>
> Testing that with a ping6 works fine. I then want it to persist across
> reboots. So I added the following to /etc/sysconfig/network:
>
>       NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
>       IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=sit1
>
> and I made /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-sit1
>
>       DEVICE=sit1
>       BOOTPROTO=none
>       ONBOOT=yes
>       IPV6INIT=yes
>       IPV6TUNNELIPV4=IPV4 Address
>       IPV6ADDR=IPV6 Address
>
> Reboot the box, check sit1 and it has an ip address. Running that
> ping6 command says the network can't be reached. I have to take the
> interface down and rerun those above commands manually. I'd appreciate
> any suggestions.

Try adding TYPE=sit to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-sit1

Ryan