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Let me describe the situation:

When I connect the computer with the wire, I get an IPV6 address automatically, there's a "Wired connection" tab in network manager, and I can access a website that supports IPV6 (google, facebook, etc.) with a hosts file, or use the proxy like google.com.sixxs.org

But if I want to access the whole internet, I have to create a DSL connection with username and password that ISP gave me. However, after I change my connection into this DSL connection, I cannot access websites over IPV6, even there's the site's ipv6 address in /etc/hosts, then I realize that I lose my IPV6 connection because the ping6 says connect: Network is unreachable.

The problem is, there's no IPV6 tab or options about IPV6 in the configure of the DSL connection. It feels like I can only use one connection at the same time, but the DSL doesn't support IPV6 and the wired connection doesn't support IPV4(I mean, there's no way to input the password the ISP gave me)

When I use another computer with MS windows, in the same environment, there's no such problem, I can access both V4 and V6 at the same time.

So how to solve this? thanks a lot.

I'm in 11.10 + gnome3

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  • xDSL connection is IP agnostic. But you should have a router either connected to the xDSL modem or built into the modem. That router has to support IPv6. Newer MS Windows sets up a tunnel if no IPv6 and only IPv4. I would like to have some data about your net. Like ip add show, ip -6 route show, ip neigh show and ip madd show. And you should update your Ubuntu OS to at least 14.04 LTS or 14.11.
    – Anders
    Nov 12, 2014 at 0:40

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Enter the connection manager(Network Connections). Select the Wired tab. Click on your connection and click edit. Under the IPv4 tab, select Manual. Your settings will be as follows:

1)Addresses: I recommend 192.168.1.99, if that does not work, use 192.168.0.99

2)DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 (Google's recursive DNS)

3)Search domains: example.com

4)Click Save. Now you should have both IPv4 and IPv6.

If you need to, disconnect and reconnect, or reboot.

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  • well...but, where should I input the username and password that ISP gave me?
    – NamiW
    Apr 12, 2012 at 14:01
  • @namiheike if you have a modem, you give the username/password to the modem. If not, than you do not even need those credentials as you can already connect via IPv6, which means you are allowed to connect in the first place.
    – nanofarad
    Apr 12, 2012 at 17:15
  • without username and password, how can I access the whole internet via ipv4, I mean, not all sites support v6, right?
    – NamiW
    Apr 20, 2012 at 5:51
  • Is it allowing you to connect at all to IPv4 without the password?
    – nanofarad
    Apr 23, 2012 at 23:20
  • no, just v6 supported sites.
    – NamiW
    Apr 24, 2012 at 0:22
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For your point #2, the IPv6 network may be unreachable because it is blocked by the firewall. See if setting "IPV6=yes" in /etc/ufw/ufw.conf helps.

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