Red Hat Satellite 6 is a nice tool for system life cycle management. It can get complex and even installation is sometimes tricky. This article is about how to install Satellite, it does not explain the principals and concepts behind it. Requirements A valid subscription for the Satellite (and optional for the capsule). The system requirements are listed here. There is one important thing the install guide is missing: Satellite 6.4 will not work in IPv6 only environments. There must ….Read More
Tag: IPv6
Setting up a 6in4 tunnel with Fedora
Why using IPv6 Tunnels anyway? Today, most Internet access providers are IPv6 enabled. However, unfortunately the majority of them do not provide a static /64 prefix, you will get it dynamically assigned. Some providers can assign you a static prefix for a surcharge. That’s useless if you want to ensure end-to-end connectivity with your Gadgets at home. Choosing a tunnel provider Since 2004 I had my own IPv6 prefix from SixXS. Pretty sad that they are shutting down its services ….Read More
Configure SSSD to work on IPv6-only Hosts
SSSD is used for the client side of IPA and other centralized Identity Management Services. Unfortunately it does not behave as it should. The default is to look up first IPv4 addresses and if that fails IPv6 should be used. Well, if IPv4 fails, the whole request fails and you got weird error messages when joining an IPA domain. As the pool for IPv4 addresses is depleted, IPv6 is getting more and more important. Thus, IPv6-only hosts are on the ….Read More