If you're using an older Linux system (based on libc5, like RedHat
5.2 or older), you will no longer find any information here in this document
. Look at ftp://ftp.bieringer.de/pub/linux/OldDocuments/
for HowTo versions < 3.12.
Words of Craig Metz <cmetz at inner dot net>: IPv6 is
, after all, still experimental stuff and the implementation still
has many rough edges. I don't think many people really understand this,
and so they expect too much from what currently exists.
If you want to set up IPv6 on a Linux box, you should really
have experiences in
IPv4 network setup, routing, configuration of Internet daemons and
services
Installing a Linux distribution, and how to install/update additional
packages
Compiling and installing a new kernel and other sources
know about
C programming, Makefile and shell (bash) language and
how to patch source code
IPv6 address architecture, routing and tunneling
Otherwise before getting into trouble, complete your knowledge:
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History of this document
January 2002: Remove some content because a new Linux+IPv6-HOWTO
is alive
May 2000: Move old inet6-apps based stuff to obsolete
Jun 1999: Some information for glibc-2.1 based distributions (kernel
2.2.10)
May 1999: Portuguese translation available
Jan 1999: Some infos for glibc-2.0, and production kernel 2.2.1
is out
Mar 1998: French translation available
Feb 1998: Splitted into several subpages, version 3.x (kernel 2.1.84),
Japanese translation available
Jun 1997: Translated into English, version 2.x (kernel 2.1.43)
Jun 1997: First release on the Web in German, version 1.x (kernel
2.1.43)
Apr 1997: First private release in German (kernel 2.1.24)
Future of this document
The document will be obsolete if all the IPv6 stuff is migrated into
normal applications, distributions, kernels and startup script files...and
the Linux+IPv6-HOWTO contains all necessary information.
Credits
for IPv6 implementation in Linux to
Pekka Savola <pekkas # netcore.fi>
for building all the IPv6 ready SRPMS for Red Hat Linux, initscript-tests
and RedHat Linux integration
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk # suse.de>
Porting the OpenBSD netkit to IPv6 (finger[d], inetd, ping/ping6,
telnet[d]]) and r-tools