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How do you mean use?
fe80:: are link-local addresses, you can't use them to connect to/from the internet.
@Ishaq
Bind it to a program, say a webserver.
For example, i want a IPv6 only website, can i then add fe80::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:159e:1000 as the IPv6 to Apache webserver?
@joodle fe80:: are link-local, they're the same as 127.0.0.1, not public accessible IP, if you were given a /64 block you need to set it up on your VPS so that at least the first address is auto-configured, from there depending on your operating system, you can create more aliases (or in some cases simply bind it to software). But you still need to have the initial+gateway/route set up first.
@kbeezie thanks man... and erm... nice font size -.-
@joodle it was a typo using the hashtag instead of at symbol :P lol.
@kbeezie haha :P
What operating system are you using, and did they assign you a range/gateway addresses in email?
I'm using Debian 6.0 64
and they gave me this: IPv6: 2001:41d0:2:091d::/64
Well I know CentOS in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 I have
IPV6_DEFAULTGW=2001:4858:aaaa:0006:0000:0000:0000:0001
Basically marking the first address + gateway. (the :: is just a filler for segments that are just zero filled, but some configurations require full addresses). Similar setup in FreeBSD.
Far as Debian 6 goes, Google is your friend : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6
You may have to restart it if they assigned it to you recently and you haven't restarted yet.
Yeah, i used this: ifconfig eth0:1 2001:41d0:2:091d::1337 up
And that seems to work
can you ping6 it from elsehwhere? or able to ping6 ipv6.google.com from inside the VPS? If not then you need to configure the default gateway (usually :1 of the block).
Edit: I can ping 2001:41d0:2:091d::1337 from one of my other servers (~111ms)
Yeah, i can ping it, i can also ping the IPv6 adress of the Server from my pc
The translation is a little dodgy but this should get you up and running:
http://help.ovh.co.uk/Ipv4Ipv6
OVH's knowledgebase has a setup guide on it, which @abat linked.
That's the proper way to do this.