This tutorial will try to implement IP Address version 6 on Opensolaris 2009.06 and Linux (Slackware 12.2). Both OS are already support IPv6 by default so we just enable/activate it.
The schenario of this test is using direct connection between the two OSes and using existing private IP addresses. IPv6 makes it very easy to assign existing addresses.
For example, the Linux IP address is 172.16.17.16 and the Opensolaris IP address is 172.16.17.238. We change the ip address in hex (IPv6 format) become ::AC10:1110 and ::AC10:11EE respectively. The :: is a short form available in IPv6 to represent zeros.
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