IPv6 configuration basics help

[Sam Varshavchik]

I wanna play with IPv6 on my LAN, for self-education purposes. My upstream 
is IPv4 only, so, for now, I just one to play with IPv6 on my LAN.

I figured out that, by default, each network interface gets automatically 
brought up with a link local addresses based on a MAC address.

>From one server, I can succesfully "ping6 -i <interface> ipv6 address" of 
another server, without really having to do anything myself. But I have to 
explicitly specify the network interface via the -i parameter. I see no 
equivalent of the IPv6 routing table, for IPv6, so what steps are needed to 
have the system know which network interface to use, for a given IPv6 
address?

If I want to assign an explicit IPv6 address to an interface, rather than 
the default one, what do I put into 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface>? One of my servers is 
headless. Can't run system-config-network, or some other purty GUI, I need 
to know what manually needs to be stuffed into initscripts.

Once I wrap my brain around these basics, I think I'll be able to figure out 
IPv6 DHCP by myself.


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