Add IPv6 support to DirectAdmin server

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Published on 2012-06-05T09:36:07Z Indexed on 2012/06/05 10:42 UTC
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I just set up an new DirectAdmin, and I want to prepare it for IPv6 use. My ISP have gave me an range of IPv6 addresses that I can use. Lets say that address is 2a01:7c8:**:1f::.

My neworkadapter user DHCP to resolves its IP-addresses. When i type ifoncig eth0 I get the following result:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:**:**:**:ce:f3  
          inet addr:37.**.**.44  Bcast:37.**.**.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2a01:7c8:****:1f::/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::5054:ff:fe87:cef3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:38941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:29439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3779534 (3.6 MiB)  TX bytes:5089379 (4.8 MiB)

As you can see, I have an IPv6 address set, but I can't ping6 an IPv6 host. I get the error: connect: Network is unreachable.

I decided that I needed an gateway, so I tryed to add one: ip -6 route add default via 2a01:7c8:****::1 dev eth0 (2a01:7c8:**::1 is the gateway of my ISP).

But it trows an error: RTNETLINK answers: No route to host.

Does somebody know what to do, and how to solve this issue? Thanks a lot!

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