On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:28:17PM +0100, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been setting up ipv6 on a machine here, added the following
> stanza to it's /etc/network/interfaces :
>> iface eth0 inet6 static
> address 2001:770:103::1/64
> netmask 64
>> I then rebooted to make sure that everything was setup correctly. I
> was rather puzzled when i noticed that eth0 was missing the above
> address. After much poking and twiddling of things, i finally copped
> that the ipv6 module wasn't loaded at the time that the initscripts
> were configuring the network. Adding 'ipv6' to /etc/modules fixed
> that. Thought i might as well share that -)
You're also specifying the subnet size twice, you don't need the
/64 part, it's redundant :-)
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