We're On The Air
Well, now that we're on the air, we've passed our first boundary. That's great, but without a means to have other computers talk on the net, it's less than useful. We need a way to put local machines on the V6 Internet.
The IPv4 Way
In IPv4 nodes are configured with addresses and routing with DHCP. In Version 6, the program radvd (Router Advertising Daemon) handles the same task.
Setup isn't that hard. Since, we've already installed radvd, just go to /etc/radvd.conf and add the following lines (we'll explain them shortly). Assuming our local interface is eth0:
interface eth0 {
AdvSendAdvert On; # Yes, send router announcements out
MinRouterAdvInterval 10; # Minimum and Maximum transmit times
MaxRouterAdvInterval 100;
prefix 2001:470:d:60c::/64 {}; # Local hosts all use this prefix
route ::/0 { }; # Announce default route
};
Start the daemon and stand back!