Does linux support ipv6?

[Fabien Tassin]

According to nilesh modi:
> Does redhat 7 support ipv6 ?

I don't know for Redhat 7 but Linux supports IPv6 for a while.

> Because when i tried to give ipv6 address it gave me the error that INET6
> not supported.

fta at nexus:~ $ uname -a
Linux nexus 2.4.1 #1 Tue Feb 6 14:11:56 CET 2001 i686 unknown

fta at nexus:~ $ ping6 ns0.sofaraway.org
PING ns0.sofaraway.org(2001:688::2) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:688::2: icmp_seq=0 hops=64 time=43 usec
64 bytes from 2001:688::2: icmp_seq=1 hops=64 time=48 usec
64 bytes from 2001:688::2: icmp_seq=2 hops=64 time=51 usec

fta at nexus:~ $ telnet pine.v6.kame.net 80
Trying 3ffe:501:4819:2000:5054:ff:fedc:50d2...
Connected to pine.v6.kame.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:40:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:43:48 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

I'm using Debian and most of the standard networking tools are v6 compliants
and there's also a special list of packages that have been patched but
not yet integrated into the main distribution including INN.

Of course, you must have IPv6 support in your kernel whatever the distribution
you are using to be able to do that.

fta at nexus:~ $ grep V6 /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64=y
# CONFIG_IPV6_NO_PB is not set

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