CONFIGURING IPV6 ADDRESSES IN SOLARIS

Configuring IPv6 in Auto Discovery mode on Solaris systems is quite easy. You just need to create an empty file, /etc/hostname6. interface, on which to configure IPv6 addresses. To configure IPv6 address using Auto Discovery mode on network interface hme0, for example, create an empty file named /etc/hostname6.hme0. Next time you boot the system, the in.ndpd daemon automatically discovers different network parameters for address autoconfiguration. A site local unicast address is configured on the interface.

STEP BY STEP

9.1 Configuring the IPv6 Interface for Auto Discovery Mode

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Configure the IPv6 address on the hme0 interface by creating the /etc/hostname6.hme0 file. This is done using the following ...

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