Phil Pennock wrote:
> 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?

.../...

> So, if someone wants to get IPv6 connectivity to self-educate ahead of
> the ISP making it available, some form of tunnelling is involved.

Yes, absolutely. All I wanted to point out is that as much as it is a good way 
to learn and play it might not be so good for peer to peer connections, which 
was on the main concern of the OP.

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