How can I add an IPv6 gateway?

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For example:

ip -6 route show | grep ^default

There is no output. So there's no default gateway for IPv6.

also I see some complains from the kernel side of things:

dmesg | grep IPv6 
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Also, I see that I only have a link-local address and not a global unicast.

ifconfig eth0 |grep "inet6 addr:"

returns an inet6 addr fe80: blahblah blah Scope:Link

The informations I have from ISP is:

The question is how I configure these into Linux.

In what Linux distribution? – Michael Hampton Feb 11 '15 at 17:05 — Michael Hampton, Feb 11 '15 at 17:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 15 '15 at 21:33

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Sample data:

To just set it up, this would be enough (as root, using iputils2):

ip -6 addr add 2001:db8::2/64 dev eth0
ip link set dev eth0 up
ip -6 route add default via 2001:db8::1

To make this permanent, consult your distro's documentation.

edited Apr 15 '15 at 21:33

kasperd

answered Feb 11 '15 at 17:18

fuero

Thank you very much for your answer. I did followed your steps. Now I have a new kind of error:

From dead:beef icmp_seq=15 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable

– drpaneas Feb 12 '15 at 09:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '15 at 13:32

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add the route to the gateway :

ip -6 route add 2004::3 dev eth0

answered Feb 12 '15 at 13:32

serenesat

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