[Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

The system wouldn't be a production server at all; it would be strictly
for testing IPv6. If there's some breakage, that's not an issue, as the
whole point of the thing is to gain some early experience with IPv6,
so I can play around with it and get my head around it.

I'm assuming that at some point in the future, we'll have to begin
deploying IPv6, and I'd like to have some in-depth hands-on experience
with it prior to that time.

A hybrid system might make sense if I were deploying a production
server, but at this point I'm not doing that. I can always experiment with
a hybrid server at a later date, after I've worked with the IPv6-only server
for a while.

Or are you saying it would be easier to learn IPv6 if I start with a
hybrid system?


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm thinking of deploying an IPv6-only server at our colo facility so I can
>> get some practical experience with IPv6. I've got server hardware available
>> for the project, so now I need to work out the remaining details.
>
> IPv6 only isn't a very feasible configuration right now. ?Most ipv6
> deployments are dual stack with both ipv6 and ipv4. ? At the very
> least, expect some ipv6 breakage due to a general lack of ipv6 enabled
> authoritative nameservers. ?If you're using a public resolver with
> both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses, that might help to some degree.
>
>> Any recommendations for the server OS? I'm used to CentOS, so my
>> initial thoughts are to use either CentOS 6.0 or Scientific Linux 6.1,
>> both of which are rebuilt editions of RHEL 6.x. Would these be my
>> best options, or would I be better off with something like FreeBSD,
>> OpenBSD, or OpenSolaris?
>
> I have my house ipv6 enabled right now (dual stack). ?I've got an ipv6
> tunnel setup on a FreeBSD box which serves out a SIXXS subnet to the
> rest of my devices. ?It works fairly well.
>
> For clients support, Linux seems to work fairly well. ?I did the
> tunnel on FreeBSD instead due to the ease of use of pf compared to
> iptables. ?No special ipv6 specific rules required, and the syntax is
> very nice and clean.
>



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