micropanther
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Goal: My goal is to set up a network of 2 to 20 computers, same or different operating systems, on a single Cisco 3560G L2/L3 switch, no off-network connections, no gateway, no DNS (at least not yet!). This is to be a network to test some newly developed code that must support both IPv4 and IPv6.
Current setup:
Sadly, everything I know about IPv4 isn't helping much here.
All I want is for these 3 PCs (and eventually others) to see each other using IPv6 addressing. I know very little about IPv6 so the real question is how do I, step-by-step, set up the router from initial autoconfig to fully setup, so that I KNOW my machines are seeing each other and aren't using IPv4 to do it.
Other questions:
Do the prefixes (upper 64 bit) of all the network addresses have to match?
What does the FE80 in the most significant bytes mean? SHould I change that?
Do I need to setup a VLAN for each port and get the L3 routing to connect them?
Do I need unicast or multicast routing or something else?
Thanks,
Wesley
Current setup:
- 1 Cisco 3560G L2/L3 switch, 28 ports, initial convoke. with IPv4 management address of 10.3.1.1
- 2 PCs running WinXP with IPv6 enabled on Interface 1, IPv4 on Interface 2.
- 1 PC running Fedora with ifconfig eth1 inet6 up and ifconfig eth0 up (IPv4 defaults, 10.254.244.254, mask=255.0.0.0). Also has serial port connected to 3560's console via kermit.
Sadly, everything I know about IPv4 isn't helping much here.
All I want is for these 3 PCs (and eventually others) to see each other using IPv6 addressing. I know very little about IPv6 so the real question is how do I, step-by-step, set up the router from initial autoconfig to fully setup, so that I KNOW my machines are seeing each other and aren't using IPv4 to do it.
Other questions:
Do the prefixes (upper 64 bit) of all the network addresses have to match?
What does the FE80 in the most significant bytes mean? SHould I change that?
Do I need to setup a VLAN for each port and get the L3 routing to connect them?
Do I need unicast or multicast routing or something else?
Thanks,
Wesley