[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#480046: IPv6 configuration through /etc/network/interfaces does not work

[Justin Jon L. Jereza]

Package: base
Severity: important

IPv6 configuration doesn't work on bootup or invoke-rc.d networking restart with either of the following:

### EXAMPLES START ###

# CONFIGURATION 1

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.5.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.5.254
        dns-nameservers 192.168.5.254
iface eth0 inet6 static
        address fc00::1:1
        netmask 7

# CONFIGURATION 2

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.5.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.5.254
        dns-nameservers 192.168.5.254
        post-up ifconfig eth0 add fc00::1:1/7
        pre-down ifconfig eth0 del fc00::1:1/7

### EXAMPLES END ###

Running the following after bootup works:

# ifconfig eth0 add fc00::1:1/7

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_PH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_PH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)