ipv6 on slackware

[John Seth]

Provided that your kernel has ipv6 support compiled into it, you can use:

# insmod ipv6

followed by:

# ifconfig

... and IPv6 addresses should show, thus being enabled, as so:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:E3:24:28:9A
          inet addr:192.168.1.61  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:e3ff:fe24:289a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:### errors:## dropped:## overruns:## frame:##
          TX packets:### errors:## dropped:## overruns:## carrier:##
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:#### (##.# Mb)  TX bytes:#### (##.# Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:28:50:76
          inet addr:206.231.8.61  Bcast:206.231.8.127 Mask:255.255.255.128
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe28:5076/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:### errors:## dropped:## overruns:## frame:##
          TX packets:### errors:## dropped:## overruns:## carrier:##
          collisions:### txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:#### (##.# Mb)  TX bytes:#### (##.# Mb)
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0xa800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:#### errors:# dropped:# overruns:# frame:#
          TX packets:#### errors:# dropped:# overruns:# carrier:#
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:#### (##.# Mb)  TX bytes:#### (##.# Mb)

  -- Tony



Joshua R. Altemoos said:
> Hello,
>
> I just got a ipv6 tunnel from btexact.com and I am trying to use it on
> my
> pc but it syas ipv6 is not enabled. How can I enable it?? I am useing
> Slackware 9.1
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Josh