On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:20:06AM -0400, William Smith wrote:
Hiya!
I've got an old laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-F520) that I've been setting to re-purposing. To this end, I've installed Fedora 10 on it.
I've got DNS (IPv4) and DHCP configured on it, and it will eventually be acting as a printserver for an HP LaserJet 4MP. :)
My question is this: How difficult (or involved) would it be to add IPv6 support to this? I know about AAAA records, but I'm not so sure what the reverse lookup file would look like. Likewise, I'm not sure about how DHCP would be configured, if I have to touch it at all.
Here's an example reverse record for IPv6 address 2001:468:616:820::20: 0.2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.8.0.6.1.6.0.8.6.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. 3600 IN PTR sinclair.wpi.edu. DHCPv6 is supported by ISC DHCP. You have to run a separate service (dhcpd -6) since the server only supports one protocol at a time. However, DHCPv6 isn't required to assign v6 addresses. DHCPv6 is only really required if you want control over the assignments such as in a managed network environment. You can instead use SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto-Configuration). This is automatic--no server required. You can run radvd on the router to announce the availablility of the router and global prefix(es) available on the link. yum install radvd