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 <b...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >> bounces+blu=nedharvey....@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. > > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 GnuPG KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com 2011 GnuPG FP: _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
