Subj : IPv6
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Dec 06 2013 22:02:04

Hello Andrew,

On Friday December 06 2013 00:13, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Address Auto Configuration) The router broadcasts router
 MV>> advertisements that tells the hosts on the LAN what the prefix
 MV>> is. The hosts make up the lower 64 bits from their MAC address.
 MV>> No need to configure anything on the other machines on your LAN.

 AL> I had to set the IPv6 address of my Linux system's Ethernet connection
 AL>  manually;

There is mechanism called prefix delegation, but I do not think neither he.net nor SixXs supports it, so indeed you have to configure that manually. Your side may not support it either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prifix_delegation

 AL> once I did that radvd takes care of the router advertisements, and a
 AL> Windows 7 Ultimate laptop was able to SLAAC a working IPv6 address.

As it should. Congratulations!

 AL> In fact, it passes test-ipv6.com's test suite with a score of 10/10.

I just get 9/10. What fails is the test for DNS over IPv6 only. My ISP's DNS servers are not reacheable via IPv6. No big deal, it will be a long time before that becomes an issue.

 AL> I still need to cleanup my startup/shutdown scripts a bit, but it's
 AL> working fine.

Very good!

Cheers, Michiel

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