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The support for IP6 is now mandatory vs the previous optional IETF RFC and has now also the status of a best practice. Talk to your ISP if they still don't sup

by fpp 15y ago

The support for IP6 is now mandatory vs the previous optional IETF RFC and has now also the status of a best practice. Talk to your ISP if they still don't support it.

mindslight 15y ago
Unless IPv6 will make consumer ISPs once again willing to give static addresses, there's no point waiting for them. # apt-get install miredo (Alternatively, if you already have a static IPv4 address and want a static IPv6 address, setup 6to4. This however is about ten times as hard, and will thus take about half an hour.)
- StavrosK 15y ago
  What the hell? It worked! How did it work?
  - mindslight 15y ago
    Hahaha. Public tunnel servers at major interconnection points. Having a packet stop off at a translation server isn't so terrible when it'd be traveling a similar path regardless. Play with ip6 a bit, and you'll gain a much different perspective of what is and is not important about it (sixxs.net will even give you a static ip6 address if you don't have a static ip4 address, but their tunnel servers can be quite out of the way).
    - lloeki 15y ago
      > sixxs.net will even give you a static ip6 address actually, a /64 initially, and a full /48 later down the road IIRC. (here the steps are 1. get a sixxs account, 2. apt-get install aiccu, 3. put credentials in /etc/aiccu.conf)
    - zokier 15y ago
      he.net deserves a mention too. rumor has that it is bit less sucky than sixxs.
      - justincormack 15y ago
        Working fell for me for a year or so. Just chose it as they have local connections.
    - StavrosK 15y ago
      Thanks! Can you explain what the advantages are, briefly? For me, the major advantage would be easy NAT traversal, but I don't know if that can be done. I'm a bit confused by the whole thing, does this mean I now need to install a firewall on the machines behind the NAT? Do the services (e.g. SSH) need to also listen on the ipv6 adapter?
- oasisbob 15y ago
  Teredo is a pretty clever technology, but there are a lot of downsides vs native v6: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html
rollypolly 15y ago
There's lots of reasons to dislike Comcast (ehumSOPAehum) but their IPv6 support is outstanding.
- steve-howard 15y ago
  I noticed about a month ago that U-Verse in my area started serving me IPv6. Ironically because a web server's IPv6 site turned out to be incredibly slow, and pinging the server showed more colons than I've come to expect in my IP addresses. The fact that they managed to do this without my noticing any interruption is commendable. I checked a few months earlier and didn't have IPv6, so I know the transition was fairly recent.

by fpp 15y ago

The support for IP6 is now mandatory vs the previous optional IETF RFC and has now also the status of a best practice. Talk to your ISP if they still don't support it.

mindslight 15y ago

Unless IPv6 will make consumer ISPs once again willing to give static addresses, there's no point waiting for them. # apt-get install miredo (Alternatively, if you already have a static IPv4 address and want a static IPv6 address, setup 6to4. This however is about ten times as hard, and will thus take about half an hour.)

StavrosK 15y ago
What the hell? It worked! How did it work?
- mindslight 15y ago
  Hahaha. Public tunnel servers at major interconnection points. Having a packet stop off at a translation server isn't so terrible when it'd be traveling a similar path regardless. Play with ip6 a bit, and you'll gain a much different perspective of what is and is not important about it (sixxs.net will even give you a static ip6 address if you don't have a static ip4 address, but their tunnel servers can be quite out of the way).
  - lloeki 15y ago
    > sixxs.net will even give you a static ip6 address actually, a /64 initially, and a full /48 later down the road IIRC. (here the steps are 1. get a sixxs account, 2. apt-get install aiccu, 3. put credentials in /etc/aiccu.conf)
  - zokier 15y ago
    he.net deserves a mention too. rumor has that it is bit less sucky than sixxs.
    - justincormack 15y ago
      Working fell for me for a year or so. Just chose it as they have local connections.
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    Thanks! Can you explain what the advantages are, briefly? For me, the major advantage would be easy NAT traversal, but I don't know if that can be done. I'm a bit confused by the whole thing, does this mean I now need to install a firewall on the machines behind the NAT? Do the services (e.g. SSH) need to also listen on the ipv6 adapter?
oasisbob 15y ago
Teredo is a pretty clever technology, but there are a lot of downsides vs native v6: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

rollypolly 15y ago

There's lots of reasons to dislike Comcast (ehumSOPAehum) but their IPv6 support is outstanding.

steve-howard 15y ago
I noticed about a month ago that U-Verse in my area started serving me IPv6. Ironically because a web server's IPv6 site turned out to be incredibly slow, and pinging the server showed more colons than I've come to expect in my IP addresses. The fact that they managed to do this without my noticing any interruption is commendable. I checked a few months earlier and didn't have IPv6, so I know the transition was fairly recent.