I am following this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-enable-ipv6-for-digitalocean-droplets to enable IP6 in my existing droplet.I manage to enable the IP6 but for the configuration part when I run the command,
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
the output is(in the Putty),
"# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
auto lo iface lo inet loopback
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*"
this is not what it is shown in the tutorial,so the question is am I using the wrong command(I am a Window user so I am using Putty and also using Serverpilot)? and where do I insert the “primary_ipv6_address” and the “ipv6_gateway”?
Thank you.
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Hi,
What you see in the /etc/network/interfaces
file is correct. You are not running any wrong command. Existing contents of the /etc/network/interfaces
file is not captured in the tutorial.
Recommendation in the tutorial is to append the following block of code to your existing /etc/network/interfaces
file.
iface eth0 inet6 static
address primary_ipv6_address
netmask 64
gateway ipv6_gateway
autoconf 0
dns-nameservers 2001:4860:4860::8844 2001:4860:4860::8888 209.244.0.3
primary_ipv6_address
and the ipv6_gateway
should be replaced with the IPv6 address and the IPv6 Gateway that you see for your Droplet in the Droplet Network View.
Make sure to save the edits to /etc/network/interfaces
before rebooting the Droplet.
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