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I guess I'll ask here... How do I learn this? I'm comfortable with IPv4, including DHCP, DNS, VPNs, NAT, whatever. I'd like to be able to set up a v6 network[0]
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
I guess I'll ask here... How do I learn this? I'm comfortable with IPv4, including DHCP, DNS, VPNs, NAT, whatever. I'd like to be able to set up a v6 network[0] in whatever is the Correct and sane way. Is there a good end-to-end tutorial to set it all up by hand and explain what all these things (RA/DHCPv6/fe80::/ULA/etc.) are and how to use them or why not to use them?
[0] Ideally pure v6 if possible; I think there's some way to encapsulate/NAT v4 traffic out from a pure v6 network so I don't actually need dual stack.
- hairyplanter 2y agoI haven’t seen one. Openwrt seems to do the right thing out of the box, but that’s not that helpful in setting up your own and learning on the way. Maybe I will write one this weekend and make a hn post.
- thwarted 2y agoHurricane Electric has a pretty decent IPv6 self-study certification program. https://ipv6.he.net/certification/ https://ipv6.he.net/certification/
- zamadatix 2y agoFor a typical network you usually don't need to do anything. For a geek's network it depends exactly what you're wanting to geek out on. E.g. NAT64 will do what you're looking for at the end (with some caveats depending on what else you're wanting to geek out on) but it's more a carrier focused solution so you don't find as much info about it when reading about consumer tutorials and vice versa. As for the actual configuration you'll want something specific to your exact network device as learning any of it with a guide for how another device expects the configuration to be entered will be hair pulling.
- hairyplanter 2y agoI wrote one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40603777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40603777
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoThank you; that helped:)