{"id":126,"date":"2011-02-03T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soljerome.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:22:56","slug":"static-ipv6-configuration-in-ubuntu-and-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/static-ipv6-configuration-in-ubuntu-and-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Static IPV6 configuration in Ubuntu and Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently setup a VPS with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arpnetworks.com\/\">Arp Networks<\/a>. By default they set you up with your own IPv6 block. All you need to do is configure it to meet your needs. I reinstalled the VPS with Ubuntu Lucid (which is not one of their default OSes) so I needed to reconfigure my interface to use one of my assigned v6 addresses. The process is extremely easy. Here is the relevant section of my <code>\/etc\/network\/interfaces<\/code> file:<\/p>\n<pre>iface eth0 inet6 static\r\n        address 2607:f2f8:a230::2\r\n        gateway 2607:f2f8:a230::1\r\n        netmask 64<\/pre>\n<p>After restarting networking, I was able to reach the machine via IPv6. You can verify the results of this by testing soljerome.com at <a href=\"http:\/\/ipv6-test.com\/validate.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ipv6-test.com\/validate.php<\/a>. Now that I&#8217;m IPv6 ready, I just wish that Comcast would finish their dual-stack rollout so I can use it natively from home. Seeing as how <a href=\"http:\/\/ripe.net\/news\/final-v4-allocation.html\">the IANA just allocated the final five \/8 blocks of IPv4 address space<\/a>, I&#8217;m hoping that the rollout happens sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently setup a VPS with Arp Networks. By default they set you up with your own IPv6 block. All you need to do is configure it to meet your needs. I reinstalled the VPS with Ubuntu Lucid (which is not one of their default OSes) so I needed to reconfigure my interface to use <a href='https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/static-ipv6-configuration-in-ubuntu-and-debian\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soljerome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}