User: Craig Rodrigues

Re:IPv6 needs to be enabled in Redhat kernels

On: IPv6 Ready For A Spin

What version of Redhat are you using?

On the Redhat 6.2 systems that I have,
modprobe ipv6 fails, insmod ipv6 fails.

If I do:
rpm -ql kernel | grep ipv6

there is no ipv6 module included by default. I need to manually recompile the kernel to get ipv6 support.

I still think that Redhat should include this support by default, to be on par with other Unixes and Windows 2000.

Re:IPv6 needs to be enabled in Redhat kernels

On: IPv6 Ready For A Spin

Well, I am using Redhat 6.2.

In /proc/net, there are no entries for
tcp6, udp6, snmp6, ip6_flowlabel,
igmp6 which are put there when IPv6 is enabled.

Also, on my Redhat 6.2 system, if I su to
root, and type: ping6 ::1
I get:

ping6: socket: Invalid argument

On another system where I have
compiled IPv6 into the kernel,
I get:

PING ::1(ip6-localhost) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ip6-localhost: icmp_seq=0 hops=64 time=0.1 ms
64 bytes from ip6-localhost: icmp_seq=1 hops=64 time=0.1 ms

I think Redhat should enable IPv6 in the kernel.
Suse Linux already does this.

Re:IPv6 needs to be enabled in Redhat kernels

On: IPv6 Ready For A Spin

Here's that URL again:
http://bugzilla.redhat.co m/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12310

Make sure that Redhat doesn't let this one drop!