diff --git a/LDP/users/Peter-Bieringer/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO.html b/LDP/users/Peter-Bieringer/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO.html index 618feaca..719bdd7c 100644 --- a/LDP/users/Peter-Bieringer/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO.html +++ b/LDP/users/Peter-Bieringer/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO.html @@ -58,6 +58,23 @@ COLSPAN="3" >Revision 0.60.22007-10-03Revised by: PBRevision 0.60.1

The goal of the Linux IPv6 HOWTO is to answer both basic and advanced questions about IPv6 on the Linux operating system. This HOWTO will provide the reader with enough information to install, configure, and use IPv6 applications on Linux machines. Intermediate releases of this HOWTO are available at

1.3. Version, History and To-Do
1.5. Technical
1.6. Preface
1.7. Used terms, glossary and shortcuts
1.8. Requirements for using this HOWTO
2.1. What is IPv6?
2.3. What do IPv6 addresses look like?
2.4. FAQ (Basics)
3.1. Addresses without a special prefix
3.2. Network part, also known as prefix
3.3. Address types (host part)
3.4. Prefix lengths for routing
4.2. IPv6-ready network configuration tools
4.3. IPv6-ready test/debug programs
4.4. IPv6-ready programs
4.5. IPv6-ready client programs (selection)
4.6. IPv6-ready server programs
5.1. Different network devices
5.2. Bringing interfaces up/down
6.1. Displaying existing IPv6 addresses
6.2. Add an IPv6 address
6.3. Removing an IPv6 address
7.1. Displaying existing IPv6 routes
7.2. Add an IPv6 route through a gateway
7.3. Removing an IPv6 route through a gateway
7.4. Add an IPv6 route through an interface
7.5. Removing an IPv6 route through an interface
7.6. FAQ for IPv6 routes
8.1. Displaying neighbors using “ip”
8.2. Manipulating neighbors table using “ip”
9.1. Types of tunnels
9.2. Displaying existing tunnels
11.1. How to access the /proc-filesystem
13.1. Server socket binding
14.1. Red Hat Linux and “clones”
14.2. SuSE Linux
15.1. Stateless auto-configuration
15.2. Stateful auto-configuration using Router Advertisement Daemon (radvd)
15.3. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol v6 (DHCPv6)
16.1. Common information
17.2. Preparation
17.3. Usage
18.1. Node security
18.2. Access limitations
19.1. Modes of using encryption and authentication
19.2. Support in kernel (ESP and AH)
19.3. Automatic key exchange (IKE)
19.4. Additional informations:
22.2. Other programming languages
24.4. IPv6 Infrastructure
25. Revision history / Credits / The End
25.3. The End

1.1.1. Copyright

1.1.2. License

1.1.3. About the author

1.1.3.1. Internet/IPv6 history of the author

1.1.3.2. Contact

1.3. Version, History and To-Do

1.3.1. Version

1.3.2. History

1.3.2.1. Major history

1.3.2.2. Full history

1.3.3. To-Do

1.4.1. To language

1.4.1.1. Chinese

1.4.1.2. Polish

1.4.1.3. German

1.4.1.4. French

1.4.1.5. Spanish

1.4.1.6. Italian

1.4.1.7. Japanese

1.4.1.8. Greek

1.4.1.9. Turkish

1.4.1.10. Portuguese-Brazil

1.5. Technical

1.5.1.1. Code line wrapping

1.5.1.2. SGML generation

1.5.2. On-line references to the HTML version of this HOWTO (linking/anchors)

1.5.2.1. Master index page

1.5.2.2. Dedicated pages

1.6. Preface

1.6.1. How many versions of a Linux & IPv6 related HOWTO are floating around?

1.6.1.1. Linux IPv6 FAQ/HOWTO (outdated)

1.6.1.2. IPv6 & Linux - HowTo (maintained)

1.6.1.3. Linux IPv6 HOWTO (this document)

1.7. Used terms, glossary and shortcuts

1.7.1. Network related

1.7.2. Document related

1.7.2.1. Long code line wrapping signal char

1.7.2.2. Placeholders

1.7.2.3. Commands in the shell

1.8. Requirements for using this HOWTO

1.8.1. Personal prerequisites

1.8.1.1. Experience with Unix tools

1.8.1.2. Experience with networking theory

1.8.1.3. Experience with IPv4 configuration

1.8.1.4. Experience with the Domain Name System (DNS)

1.8.1.5. Experience with network debugging strategies

1.8.2. Linux operating system compatible hardware

2.1. What is IPv6?

2.2.1. Beginning

2.2.2. In between

2.2.3. Current

2.2.4. Future

2.3. What do IPv6 addresses look like?

2.4. FAQ (Basics)

2.4.1. Why is the name IPv6 and not IPv5 as successor for IPv4?

2.4.2. IPv6 addresses: why such a high number of bits?

2.4.3. IPv6 addresses: why so small a number of bits on a new design?

3.1. Addresses without a special prefix

3.1.1. Localhost address

3.1.2. Unspecified address

3.1.3. IPv6 address with embedded IPv4 address

3.1.3.1. IPv4-mapped IPv6 address

3.1.3.2. IPv4-compatible IPv6 address

3.2. Network part, also known as prefix

3.2.1. Link local address type

3.2.2. Site local address type

3.2.3. Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses

3.2.4. Global address type "(Aggregatable) global unicast"

3.2.4.1. 6bone test addresses

3.2.4.2. 6to4 addresses

3.2.4.3. Assigned by provider for hierarchical routing

3.2.4.4. Addresses reserved for examples and documentation

3.2.5. Multicast addresses

3.2.5.1. Multicast scopes

3.2.5.2. Multicast types

3.2.5.3. Solicited node link-local multicast address

3.2.6. Anycast addresses

3.2.6.1. Subnet-router anycast address

3.3. Address types (host part)

3.3.1. Automatically computed (also known as stateless)

3.3.1.1. Privacy problem with automatically computed addresses and a solution

3.3.2. Manually set

3.4. Prefix lengths for routing

3.4.1. Prefix lengths (also known as "netmasks")

3.4.2. Matching a route

4.1.1. Check for IPv6 support in the current running kernel

4.1.2. Try to load IPv6 module

4.1.2.1. Automatically loading of module

4.1.3. Compile kernel with IPv6 capabilities

4.1.3.1. Compiling a vanilla kernel

4.1.3.2. Compiling a kernel with USAGI extensions

4.1.4. IPv6-ready network devices

4.1.4.1. Currently known never “IPv6 capable links”

4.1.4.2. Currently known “not supported IPv6 capable links”

4.2. IPv6-ready network configuration tools

4.2.1. net-tools package

4.2.2. iproute package

4.3. IPv6-ready test/debug programs

4.3.1.1. Specifying interface for IPv6 ping

4.3.1.2. Ping6 to multicast addresses

4.3.4.1. IPv6 ping to 2001:0db8:100:f101::1 native over a local link

4.3.4.2. IPv6 ping to 2001:0db8:100::1 routed through an IPv6-in-IPv4-tunnel

4.4. IPv6-ready programs

4.5. IPv6-ready client programs (selection)

4.5.1. Checking DNS for resolving IPv6 addresses

4.5.2. IPv6-ready telnet clients

4.5.3. IPv6-ready ssh clients

4.5.3.1. openssh

4.5.3.2. ssh.com

4.5.4. IPv6-ready web browsers

4.5.4.1. URLs for testing

4.6. IPv6-ready server programs

4.7.1. Using tools

4.7.1.1. Q: Cannot ping6 to link-local addresses

4.7.1.2. Q: Cannot ping6 or traceroute6 as normal user

5.1. Different network devices

5.1.1. Physically bounded

5.1.2. Virtually bounded

5.1.2.1. IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel interfaces

5.1.2.2. PPP interfaces

5.1.2.3. ISDN HDLC interfaces

5.1.2.4. ISDN PPP interfaces

5.1.2.5. SLIP + PLIP

5.1.2.6. Ether-tap device

5.1.2.7. tun devices

5.1.2.8. ATM

5.1.2.9. Others

5.2. Bringing interfaces up/down

5.2.1. Using "ip"

5.2.2. Using "ifconfig"

6.1. Displaying existing IPv6 addresses

6.1.1. Using "ip"

6.1.2. Using "ifconfig"

6.2. Add an IPv6 address

6.2.1. Using "ip"

6.2.2. Using "ifconfig"

6.3. Removing an IPv6 address

6.3.1. Using "ip"

6.3.2. Using "ifconfig"

7.1. Displaying existing IPv6 routes

7.1.1. Using "ip"

7.1.2. Using "route"

7.2. Add an IPv6 route through a gateway

7.2.1. Using "ip"

7.2.2. Using "route"

7.3. Removing an IPv6 route through a gateway

7.3.1. Using "ip"

7.3.2. Using "route"

7.4. Add an IPv6 route through an interface

7.4.1. Using "ip"

7.4.2. Using "route"

7.5. Removing an IPv6 route through an interface

7.5.1. Using "ip"

7.5.2. Using "route"

7.6. FAQ for IPv6 routes

7.6.1. Support of an IPv6 default route

7.6.1.1. Clients (not routing any packet!)

7.6.1.2. Routers in case of packet forwarding

8.1. Displaying neighbors using “ip”

8.2. Manipulating neighbors table using “ip”

8.2.1. Manually add an entry

8.2.2. Manually delete an entry

8.2.3. More advanced settings

9.1. Types of tunnels

9.1.1. Static point-to-point tunneling: 6bone

9.1.2. Automatically tunneling

9.1.3.1. Generation of 6to4 prefix

9.1.3.2. 6to4 upstream tunneling

9.1.3.3. 6to4 downstream tunneling

9.1.3.4. Possible 6to4 traffic

9.2. Displaying existing tunnels

9.2.1. Using "ip"

9.2.2. Using "route"

9.3.1. Add point-to-point tunnels

9.3.1.1. Using "ip"

9.3.1.2. Using "ifconfig" and "route" (deprecated)

9.3.1.3. Using "route" only

9.3.2. Removing point-to-point tunnels

9.3.2.1. Using "ip"

9.3.2.2. Using "ifconfig" and "route" (deprecated because not very funny)

9.3.2.3. Using "route"

9.3.3. Numbered point-to-point tunnels

9.4.1. Add a 6to4 tunnel

9.4.1.1. Using "ip" and a dedicated tunnel device

9.4.1.2. Using "ifconfig" and "route" and generic tunnel device “sit0” (deprecated)

9.4.2. Remove a 6to4 tunnel

9.4.2.1. Using "ip" and a dedicated tunnel device

9.4.2.2. Using “ifconfig” and “route” and generic tunnel device “sit0” (deprecated)

11.1. How to access the /proc-filesystem

11.1.1. Using “cat” and “echo”

11.1.1.1. Retrieving a value

11.1.1.2. Setting a value

11.1.2. Using “sysctl”

11.1.2.1. Retrieving a value

11.1.2.2. Setting a value

11.1.2.3. Additionals

11.1.3. Values found in /proc-filesystems

11.2.1. conf/default/*

11.2.2. conf/all/*

11.2.2.1. conf/all/forwarding

11.2.3. conf/interface/*

11.2.3.1. accept_ra

11.2.3.2. accept_redirects

11.2.3.3. autoconf

  • Default: TRUE

    Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled. disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.

    • Configure link-local addresses (see also Addresstypes) using L2 hardware addresses. E.g. this generates automagically an address like “fe80::201:23ff:fe45:6789” on an interface with a L2-MAC address.

    Autoconfigure addresses using prefix information from router advertisements.

    11.2.3.4. dad_transmits

    11.2.3.5. forwarding

    11.2.3.6. hop_limit

    11.2.3.7. mtu

    11.2.3.8. router_solicitation_delay

    11.2.3.9. router_solicitation_interval

    11.2.3.10. router_solicitations

    11.2.4. neigh/default/*

    11.2.4.1. gc_thresh1

    11.2.4.2. gc_thresh2

    11.2.4.3. gc_thresh3

    11.2.4.4. gc_interval

    11.2.5. neigh/interface/*

    11.2.5.1. anycast_delay

    11.2.5.2. gc_stale_time

    11.2.5.3. proxy_qlen

    11.2.5.4. unres_qlen

    11.2.5.5. app_solicit

    11.2.5.6. locktime

    11.2.5.7. retrans_time

    11.2.5.8. base_reachable_time

    11.2.5.9. mcast_solicit

    11.2.5.10. ucast_solicit

    11.2.5.11. delay_first_probe_time

    11.2.5.12. proxy_delay

    11.2.6. route/*

    11.2.6.1. flush

    11.2.6.2. gc_interval

    11.2.6.3. gc_thresh

    11.2.6.4. mtu_expires

    11.2.6.5. gc_elasticity

    11.2.6.6. gc_min_interval

    11.2.6.7. gc_timeout

    11.2.6.8. min_adv_mss

    11.2.6.9. max_size

    11.3.1. ip_*

    11.3.1.1. ip_local_port_range

    11.3.2. tcp_*

    11.3.3. icmp_*

    11.3.4. others

    11.4.1. if_inet6

    11.4.2. ipv6_route

    11.4.3. sockstat6

    11.4.4. tcp6

    11.4.5. udp6

    11.4.6. igmp6

    11.4.7. raw6

    11.4.8. ip6_flowlabel

    11.4.9. rt6_stats

    11.4.10. snmp6

    11.4.11. ip6_tables_names

    13.1. Server socket binding

    13.1.1. Using “netstat” for server socket binding check

    13.2.1. Router discovery

    13.2.1.1. Router advertisement

    13.2.1.2. Router solicitation

    13.2.2. Neighbor discovery

    13.2.2.1. Neighbor discovery solicitation for duplicate address detection

    13.2.2.2. Neighbor discovery solicitation for looking for host or gateway

    14.1. Red Hat Linux and “clones”

    14.1.1. Test for IPv6 support of network configuration scripts

    14.1.2. Short hint for enabling IPv6 on current RHL 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, ...

    14.2. SuSE Linux

    14.2.1. SuSE Linux 7.3

    14.2.2. SuSE Linux 8.0

    14.2.2.1. IPv6 address configuration

    14.2.2.2. Additional information

    14.2.3. SuSE Linux 8.1

    14.2.3.1. IPv6 address configuration

    14.2.3.2. Additional information

    14.3.1. Further information

    15.1. Stateless auto-configuration

    15.2. Stateful auto-configuration using Router Advertisement Daemon (radvd)

    15.3. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol v6 (DHCPv6)

    16.1. Common information

    16.1.1. Node Mobility

    16.1.2. Network Mobility

    16.1.3. Links

    17.1.1. More information

    17.2. Preparation

    17.2.1. Get sources

    17.2.2. Extract sources

    17.2.3. Apply latest iptables/IPv6-related patches to kernel source

    17.2.4. Configure, build and install new kernel

    17.2.5. Rebuild and install binaries of iptables

    17.3. Usage

    17.3.1. Check for support

    17.3.2. Learn how to use ip6tables

    17.3.2.1. List all IPv6 netfilter entries

    17.3.2.2. List specified filter

    17.3.2.3. Insert a log rule at the input filter with options

    17.3.2.4. Insert a drop rule at the input filter

    17.3.2.5. Delete a rule by number

    17.3.2.6. Enable connection tracking

    17.3.2.7. Allow ICMPv6

    17.3.2.8. Rate-limiting

    17.3.2.9. Allow incoming SSH

    17.3.2.10. Enable tunneled IPv6-in-IPv4

    17.3.2.11. Protection against incoming TCP connection requests

    17.3.2.12. Protection against incoming UDP connection requests

    17.3.3. Examples

    17.3.3.1. Simple example for Fedora Core

    17.3.3.2. Sophisticated example

    18.1. Node security

    18.2. Access limitations

    18.3.1. Legal issues

    18.3.2. Security auditing using IPv6-enabled netcat

    18.3.3. Security auditing using IPv6-enabled nmap

    18.3.4. Security auditing using IPv6-enabled strobe

    18.3.5. Audit results

    19.1. Modes of using encryption and authentication

    19.1.1. Transport mode

    19.1.2. Tunnel mode

    19.2. Support in kernel (ESP and AH)

    19.2.1. Support in vanilla Linux kernel 2.4.x

    19.2.2. Support in vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.x

    19.3. Automatic key exchange (IKE)

    19.3.1. IKE daemon “racoon”

    19.3.1.1. Manipulation of the IPsec SA/SP database with the tool “setkey”

    19.3.1.2. Configuration of the IKE daemon “racoon”

    19.3.1.3. Running IPsec with IKE daemon “racoon”

    19.3.2. IKE daemon “pluto”

    19.3.2.1. Configuration of the IKE daemon “pluto”

    19.3.2.2. Running IPsec with IKE daemon “pluto”

    19.4. Additional informations:

    21.1.1. Listening on IPv6 addresses

    21.1.1.1. Enable BIND named for listening on IPv6 address

    21.1.1.2. Disable BIND named for listening on IPv6 address

    21.1.2. IPv6 enabled Access Control Lists (ACL)

    21.1.3. Sending queries with dedicated IPv6 address

    21.1.4. Per zone defined dedicated IPv6 addresses

    21.1.4.1. Transfer source address

    21.1.4.2. Notify source address

    21.1.5. IPv6 DNS zone files examples

    21.1.6. Serving IPv6 related DNS data

    21.1.6.1. Current best practice

    21.1.7. Checking IPv6-enabled connect

    21.1.7.1. IPv6 connect, but denied by ACL

    21.1.7.2. Successful IPv6 connect

    21.3.1. Listening on IPv6 addresses

    21.3.1.1. Virtual host listen on an IPv6 address only

    21.3.1.2. Virtual host listen on an IPv6 and on an IPv4 address

    21.3.1.3. Additional notes

    21.4.1. Configuring radvd

    21.4.1.1. Simple configuration

    21.4.1.2. Special 6to4 configuration

    21.4.2. Debugging

    21.5.1. Configuration of the DHCPv6 server (dhcp6s)

    21.5.1.1. Simple configuration

    21.5.2. Configuration of the DHCPv6 client (dhcp6c)

    21.5.2.1. Simple configuration

    21.5.3. Usage

    21.5.3.1. dhcpv6_server

    21.5.3.2. dhcpv6_client

    21.5.4. Debugging

    21.5.4.1. dhcpv6_server

    21.5.4.2. dhcpv6_client

    21.6.1. Filtering capabilities

    21.6.2. Which program uses tcp_wrapper

    21.6.3. Usage

    21.6.3.1. Example for /etc/hosts.allow

    21.6.3.2. Example for /etc/hosts.deny

    21.6.4. Logging

    21.6.4.1. Refused connection

    21.6.4.2. Permitted connection

    21.7.1. Listening on IPv6 addresses

    21.8.1. Listening on IPv6 addresses

    22.1.1. Address Structures

    22.1.1.1. IPv4 sockaddr_in

    22.1.1.2. IPv6 sockaddr_in6

    22.1.1.3. Generic Addresses

    22.1.2. Lookup Functions

    22.1.3. Quirks Encountered

    22.1.3.1. IPv4 Mapped Addresses

    22.1.3.2. Cannot Specify the Scope Identifier in /etc/hosts

    22.1.3.3. Client & Server Residing on the Same Machine

    22.1.4. Putting It All Together (A Client-Server Programming Example)

    Porting applications to IPv6 HowTo. For the record, the source code presented here is original, developed from scratch, and any similarity between it and any other publicly available 'daytime' example is purely coincidental.]. The source code presented in this section was developed and tested on a RedHat Linux release using the 2.6 kernel (2.6.9 to be specific). Readers may use the source code freely, so long as proper credit is attributed; but of course the standard disclaimer must be given first:

    22.1.4.1. 'Daytime' Server Code

    22.1.4.2. 'Daytime' TCP Client Code

    22.1.4.3. 'Daytime' UDP Client Code

    22.2. Other programming languages

    22.2.1. JAVA

    22.2.2. Perl

    24.1.1. Printed Books (English)

    24.1.1.1. Cisco

    24.1.1.2. General

    24.1.2. Articles, eBooks, Online Reviews (mixed)

    24.1.4. Others

    24.2.1. 2002

    24.2.2. 2003

    24.2.3. 2004

    24.3.2. Latest news and URLs to other documents

    24.3.3. Protocol references

    24.3.3.1. IPv6-related Request For Comments (RFCs)

    24.3.3.2. Current drafts of working groups

    24.3.3.3. Others

    24.3.4. More information

    24.3.4.1. Linux related

    24.3.4.2. Linux related per distribution

    24.3.4.3. General

    24.3.5. By countries

    24.3.5.1. Europe

    24.3.5.2. Austria

    24.3.5.3. Australia

    24.3.5.4. Belgium

    24.3.5.5. Brazil

    24.3.5.6. China

    24.3.5.7. Czech

    24.3.5.8. Germany

    24.3.5.9. France

    24.3.5.10. Italy

    24.3.5.11. Japan

    24.3.5.12. Korea

    24.3.5.13. Mexico

    24.3.5.14. Netherland

    24.3.5.15. Portugal

    24.3.5.16. Russia

    24.3.5.17. Switzerland

    24.3.5.18. United Kingdom

    24.3.6. By operating systems

    24.3.6.1. *BSD

    24.3.6.2. Cisco IOS

    24.3.6.3. Compaq

    24.3.6.4. HPUX

    24.3.6.5. IBM

    24.3.6.6. Microsoft

    24.3.6.7. Solaris

    24.3.6.8. Sumitoma

    24.3.6.9. ZebOS

    24.3.8. Application lists

    24.3.8.1. Analyzer tools

    24.3.8.2. IPv6 Products

    24.4. IPv6 Infrastructure

    24.4.1. Statistics

    24.4.2. Internet Exchanges

    24.4.4.4. Radio Stations, Music Streams

    24.6.1. Testing tools

    24.6.2. Information retrievement

    24.6.3. IPv6 Looking Glasses

    24.6.4. Helper applications

    Chapter 25. Revision history / Credits / The End

    25.1.1. Releases 0.x

    0.60.2

    2007-10-03/PB: fix description of sysctl/autoconf (credits to Francois-Xavier Le Bail)

    0.60.1

    25.2.2. Other credits

    25.2.2.1. Document technique related

    25.3. The End

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