[CentOS] Configuring ipv6 reboot persistence, CentOS 5.6

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that didn't fix it.

Dave

On 5/7/11, Ryan Wagoner <rswagoner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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