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Copper Contributor

Sep 06, 2022

Need help for ipv6 support for linux

I am using the posh-sh module to connect a remote Linux machine. It works well in ipv4 but not in ipv6. Do I need to enable or configure anything in posh-ssh? Note: Ipv6 is configured on ...

need suport posh-ssh ipv6

Harm_Veenstra

MVP

Sep 06, 2022

I only did it using IPv4 in the past (Wrote a blog about it actually, https://powershellisfun.com/2022/05/26/powershell-remoting-to-linux-servers-using-ssh/ )

Can you SSH to it using IPv6? (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-bsd-unix-configuring-ssh-listen-ipv6-addresses/)

lekshmanan
Copper Contributor
Sep 06, 2022
Harm_Veenstra connect ssh using ipv6 is working fine. I log in using putty and using the ping command to verify also. I doubt whether the posh-ssh supports ipv6 or not.
- Harm_Veenstra
  MVP
  Sep 06, 2022
  Not sure if the openssh in Windows can, but that's the one that I used for my blog post
  - lekshmanan
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 12, 2022
    Harm_Veenstra
    Finally It worked.
    i done the below command on ubandu server
    ip -6 addr flush dev eth0 scope link
    ip -6 link set eth0 up
    now connected using the below command.
    New-SSHSession -ComputerName 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:0000:0000:0003 -Credential $RemoteCredential -ConnectionTimeout 10000
    **SessionId Host Connected