Network/IPv6

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Network/IPv6
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What:
IPv6 connectivity
Tagline:
Where the wild packets grow
Maintainer(s):
askarel
Archived:
yes



A real hackerspace need an IPv6 connection. :-)

SixXS is an european and very good tunnel broker. We just need to create an account and set up aiccu

WARNING: Privacy extension

On Linux the privacy extension is disabled by default. That means your MAC address will be appended to the prefix received from the router to make a usable IP address. This is a privacy issue because the suffix is tied to one machine. To enable it, just add those entries to /etc/sysctl.cfg for every network interface:

net.ipv6.conf.eth3.use_tempaddr = 2
net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.use_tempaddr = 2

Then reload the configuration:

# sysctl -p