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Configure static IPv6 on Ubuntu

I'm trying to configure IPv6 on a dedicated Ubuntu server. My provider gave me a "/64" (whatever that is - I'm still confused) of IPv6 addresses. However, when I try to use them, I can't ping ...
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Why can I listen on an IP not listed by ifconfig?

I'm putting my hands on a legacy system (a Xen cluster) and I'm trying to understand its architecture. It seems that there are services listening on an IP (say, 1.2.3.4) that doesn't show up in ...
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Change the order of IP addresses returned by ifconfig?

I have an Ubuntu server with several IP addresses attached to it. 127.0.0.1 is listed as venet0 by ifconfig. I'm using Chef to configure the server. The problem is that chef is listing 127.0.0.1 as ...
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configuring two network interfaces in ubuntu 10.04.1

I have got two NICs configured on a VM - each is tied to a specific network, one is a DMZ, the other is an internal network. I want MySQL to listen on the internal network only and Apache on the DMZ ...
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Ifconfig Alias Address Assigned by DHCP

I would like to create several aliases to eth0, but have the addresses assigned by DHCP instead of being set to static IP's. Is this even possible? All the examples I've seen assign a static IP ...
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ifconfig dirties inode on proc (Linux)

I'm currently checking HD access with the following echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump tail -f /tmp/syslog and this log message pops up once in a while: Aug 31 22:44:18 Frasse kernel: [ ...