[SunHELP] IPv6 on last OpenSolaris release

[Cory Smelosky]

On 27 May 2013, at 23:09, "Brad Walker" <bwalker at musings.com> wrote:

>
> I would encourage you to think about the illumos project.
> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/About+illumos
>
> It is actively being developed. There are several distributions. And if you
> are really trying to run OpenSolaris, then why not use something that has
> active development and support for any problems you might have.

Unfortunately, it doesn't yet support my Sun Fire V480, else I'd run something
newer. :(

>
> -brad w.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm having a bit of difficulty configuring IPv6 on OpenSolaris (snv_134).
>> This is pre-ipadm so the documentation and a lot of google isn't too
>> helpful.
>>
>> What I need to do: is configure this via ifconfig or similar.
>> (I also don't want to reboot the zone.)
>>
>> root at meaghan:~# ifconfig vnic1 inet6 plumb
>> root at meaghan:~# ifconfig vnic1 inet6
2001:470:1f07:e53:beef:d00d::**1337/64
>> up
>> ifconfig: SIOCSLIFADDR: vnic1: Cannot assign requested address
>> root at meaghan:~# ifconfig vnic1 inet6 addif
2001:470:1f07:e53:beef:d00d::**1337/64
>> up
>> Created new logical interface vnic1:1
>>
>> However, nothing can ping that IP and it can't get out...and I'm not able
>> to configure the gateway...because the gateway isn't on the same network..
>>
>> Ideas?  Tarballs of ipadm and all related libraries?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Cory Smelosky
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