[Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey)]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau
> 
> Any recommendations for the server OS? 

All OSes support IPv6 natively, very well now.  Every flavor of Linux,
Windows, Mac, Solaris, etc.  Um...  Disclaimer:  Not all the apps inside
your OS support it well.  If people can sometimes get tripped up by IPv6 in
Firefox, just imagine how well it works for the zillion daemons you're
running, etc.  There will be gotchas.   But you can solve them all.

The problem is connectivity.  Most of the time you'll run into a problem
with the ISP, firewall, router, etc.  One of these things won't support it,
and your traffic won't go anywhere.  So then you have to do things like
tunneling IPv6 over IPv4.

While you wouldn't want to do tunneling in a full fledged production system
(defeats the point of IPv6) you'll be able to learn everything you need to
learn that way.  Ideally you would have your perimeter firewall do the
tunneling, so your internal OSes would simply think "Hey, I'm on a network
that supports IPv6."  You become your own ISP providing IPv6 to yourself.  I
know apple airport extremes have native tunneling available.  Just enter
your tunnel endpoint settings (from hurricaine electric or whatever) and
voila, you have an IPv6 enabled LAN.  I am certain many other devices can do
the same.