[GRLUG] AFTR - an ISC IPv6 transition tool

[Michael Mol]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 14:41 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>> Someone mentioned that recent distributions
>> come with IPv6 enabled.  How might one verify
>> that it is enabled?
>
> $ ip addr
>
> If you see an inet6 addresses then IPv6 is enabled on the host;  if one
> of the inet6 addresses starts with something other than fe80:: [which is
> link-local and always present] then something (most likely a radvd
> instance) is providing your host with an IPv6 assignment.

ppp and layer-3 OpenVPN tunnels don't configure fe80 addresses. (At
least, by default, as tested on my home setup, with AT&T DSL and
PPPoE.)

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