RE: IPv6?

["Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)" <KCollins chevron com>]

I'm not trying to access anything other than another system on the same
ethernet subnet via its IPv4 address. In this case, the IPv4 connection
was refused and the rsh command is trying to fallback to IPv6 for some
reason.

What I really want to know: why do I have an IPv6 address associated
with eth1 when I did not configure it?

Thanks,

Kevin 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nahant-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Jos Vos
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 2:08 PM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List
Subject: Re: IPv6?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:02:41PM -0700, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)
wrote:

>           inet6 addr: fe80::250:8bff:fe65:4efe/64 Scope:Link
> 
> I know almost nothing about IPv6, having never used it anywhere, so I
am
> wondering why I have an "inet6" address there? I have not configured
any
> v6 info, so I'm trying to determine how that is being populated.
> 
> Additionally, if I try to rsh to another system, I am seeing this:
> 
> connect to address 146.28.34.29: Connection refused
> Trying next address...
> connect to address 921c:221d:6370:6166:6973:7862:78:6200: Network is
> unreachable

You have got a link-local IPv6 address, not a global address, so with
that you can't reach systems outside your local Ethernet (as you
try...).

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