I recently reinstalled the OS on my server (due to a lot of misconfiguration, I thought it would be easiest to start again) following the guide on the wiki: <div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer">https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>It installed correctly, and now I am working through the &quot;<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 19px;">Things you might like to change after install&quot; part. I set up the cacher and NTP but I am </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">completely</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 19px;"> stumped on IPv6. According to &quot;ifconfig&quot; IPv6 is there (I have an inet6 address) so I tried to ping6 <a href="http://ipv6.google.com">ipv6.google.com</a> and it failed as i suspected.</span></font></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 19px;">The next thing I tried was just adding my settings to /etc/network/interfaces:</span></font></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 19px;"><div>iface eth0 inet6 static</div><div>pre-up modprobe ipv6</div><div># Perhaps you will only use this one for web serving</div>

<div>    address fe80::216:5eff:fe00:1e5</div><div>    netmask 64</div><div>    gateway 2001:ba8:1f1:f004::1</div><div><br></div><div>but that didn&#39;t work either...does anybody have any idea how I can enable v6?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div>Daniel</div></span></font></div>