On 2010-04-06 at 22:11 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > Phil Pennock wrote: > > > >> For that matter . anybody know how to get an IPv6 address, if your ISP > >> doesn't simply give them out? > > > > Hurricane Electric give out free tunnels: http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ > > Tunnelling is great to play and learn about ipv6, but not so much for peer to > peer stuff, because now you're going from your machine to the tunnel provider > to the other guy's tunnel provider to the other guy's machine, kind of > defeating the purpose of peer to peer!
True, but do you have another suggestion for when the ISP does not provide IPv6, as stated by the OP? You can get native IPv6 or tunnelled IPv6. The tunnelling can be static or automatic, and if automatic your main choices are: * 6to4, has to be done on the NAT box, is IPv6-in-IPv4 * Teredo, IPv6-in-IPv4/UDP can be done from NATted end-hosts * stubl, within an enterprise, if you can get IPv6 to the stubl server * 6rd, but that's tunnelling within the ISP to provide pseudo-native IPv6 to customers So, if someone wants to get IPv6 connectivity to self-educate ahead of the ISP making it available, some form of tunnelling is involved. Oh, and with 6to4 going between two 6to4 sites, it may not be so bad -- I don't recall off-hand if 6to4 can short-circuit and just go between the embedded IPv4 addresses. But 6to4 has the problem diagnosis issues and you almost certainly don't want to deploy 6to4 addresses on *servers*. -Phil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
