====== IPv6 on Solaris ======

===== Solaris 8 =====

^ Description ^ Command ^
| Enable IPv6 on an interface | ifconfig [interface] inet6 plumb |
| Add an IPv6 at runtime on an interface | ifconfig [interface] inet6 addif address/prefix |
| Add an IPv6 route | route add -inet6 address/prefix gateway |
| Show IPv6 active interfaces | ifconfig -au6 |
| Show IPv6 routing table | netstat -nrfinet6 |
| ping IPv6 | ping -A inet6 IPv6Address |
| traceroute IPv6 | traceroute -A inet6 IPv6Address |

IPv6 in solaris 8 is not enabled by default. You have to install packages at the install process in order to have IPv6 enabled.

With IPv6 enabled system-wide, you should be able to create an IPv6 virtual Interface.

==== Configuration ====

=== With router advert ===

<code>
#> touch /etc/hostname6.le0
#> touch /etc/hostname6.lo0
</code>

(Of course, you must replace le0 with your interface name (could be get with an ''ifconfig -a''))

This should be suffiscient to enable at reboot.

If you want to test IPv6 without rebooting, you could do what is explained in [[ipv6#Without|Without router advert]] section.

(FIXME: Don't know how to ask Solaris an IPv6 Address at runtime)

=== Without routeur advert ===

<code>
#> touch /etc/hostname6.le0
#> echo "addif 2001:7a8:b0cd:1::17/64 up" >/etc/hostname6.le0
</code>

If you don't wanna reboot to see IPv6 in action, use that ifconfig commands:
<code>
#> ifconfig le0 inet6 addif 2001:7a8:b0cd:1::17/64 up
</code>

Now you must add the default route for IPv6.

<code>
#> route add -inet6 default link-local-ipv6-gateway
</code>

(FIXME: don't know how to add a route at boot time)


==== Testing ====

Ultimate traceroute test !

<code>
$> traceroute -A inet6 2001:7a8:b0cd:1::17
</code>

This my sun sparcstation 5 solaris 8 IPv6 enabled host :)


FIXME: don't know how to add IPv6 DNS resolution support...