Raspi's Raspbian: no IPv6 by default ...

Strange: Raspberry Pi's Raspbian ("2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian") has no IPv6 activated by default. Just plain IPv4. Strange ... why leave out IPv6 in 2012? On Ubuntu IPv6 is even built-in into the kernel.

Anyway:

• A manual "modprobe ipv6" solved it ... until the next reboot.
• Adding "ipv6" (without the quotes) to /etc/modules solved it really

Some specs:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ uname -a

Linux raspberrypi 3.1.9+ #168 PREEMPT Sat Jul 14 18:56:31 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ lsmod | grep -i ipv6

ipv6                  290227  20 

pi@raspberrypi ~ $

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ping6 -nc4 www.google.com

PING www.google.com(2a00:1450:4007:803::1012) 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 2a00:1450:4007:803::1012: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=39.9 ms

64 bytes from 2a00:1450:4007:803::1012: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=38.0 ms

64 bytes from 2a00:1450:4007:803::1012: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=38.9 ms

64 bytes from 2a00:1450:4007:803::1012: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=38.1 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 38.094/38.783/39.923/0.780 ms

pi@raspberrypi ~ $

HTH