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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 1.1.1. 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 Linux IPv6 FAQ/HOWTO (outdated)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