[Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

[John Abreau]

I registered for an account at SixXS.com on Friday evening, and then
yesterday I requested a heartbeat tunnel. I just received the tunnel
this afternoon.

I deployed it as a hybrid system on a new server that we're planning
to move our guest websites to in the near future, and I'm successfully
pinging over IPv6 and, via vnc-over-ssh, I was able to browse several
IPv6-only sites.

I'm thinking I can deploy the other server as IPv6-only and have it
route through the hybrid server, making it feasible to try out both types
of environments.



On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>



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