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IPv6 & Linux - HowTo - Part 2

Version: 4.00 from 2011-10-18

(P) & (C) 1997-2011 by Peter Bieringer < pb@bieringer.de >, see copyright notice for more details
Original site of publishing: http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/ ; suggestions, comments and improvements are welcome!

See now also Linux+IPv6-HOWTO [LDP] | Linux+IPv6-HOWTO [mirror]

Needed software packages

Linux distribution
Kernel (perhaps)

Linux distribution

Why?

You need a running Linux system to go to IPv6

Version:

e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS or Fedora or any other active maintained Linux distribution, don't forget to apply all available updates to close all known local and remote security holes!
I'll prefer at the moment Fedora 15

IPv6 ready kernel

Newest Linux distributions mostly contain already IPv6-enabled kernels. Try first "modprobe ipv6" before thinking about compiling a new kernel.
See also Linux IPv6 HOWTO / kernel

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