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December 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM
spikepike

Help with manually configuring a static IPv6 network

by spikepike . Updated 3 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

I have a private OpenStack environment which works fine apart from IPv6. I’m trying to setup an IPv6 network whereby 3 VMs can talk to each other over IPv6. The DHCP element is not working but I should apparently be able to statically configure. However I have no idea how to achieve this. Is this something someone can help with?

andy@ap-ipv6-demo-01:~$ ip a

2: ens3: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:16:3e:7d:41:6b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.17.80/22 brd 192.168.19.255 scope global dynamic ens3
valid_lft 86318sec preferred_lft 86318sec
inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fe7d:416b/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens4: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:16:3e:de:cb:29 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.10.2/24 brd 10.0.10.255 scope global dynamic ens4
valid_lft 86318sec preferred_lft 86318sec
inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fede:cb29/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

andy@ap-ipv6-demo-04:~$ ip a

2: ens3: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:16:3e:c9:e2:88 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.17.144/22 brd 192.168.19.255 scope global dynamic ens3
valid_lft 84167sec preferred_lft 84167sec
inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fec9:e288/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens4: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:16:3e:6f:fb:57 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.10.13/24 brd 10.0.10.255 scope global dynamic ens4
valid_lft 84167sec preferred_lft 84167sec
inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fe6f:fb57/64 scope link
valid_lft forever

andy@ap-ipv6-demo-02:~$ ip a

2: ens3: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:16:3e:f6:31:c2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.17.56/22 brd 192.168.19.255 scope global dynamic ens3
valid_lft 86306sec preferred_lft 86306sec
inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fef6:31c2/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens4: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:16:3e:fd:eb:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.10.24/24 brd 10.0.10.255 sco

Any help gratefully received!

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