On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:17:43PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
| Hi guys
| As there is a call to do lots of testing of -CURRENT & seeing as we'll be
| getting a version of Apache with IPv6 support how about everyone makes an
| effort to get an IPv6 tunnel up (if your ISP doesn't offer IPv6
| connectivity).
If your ISP doesn't offer IPv6 connectivity, be sure to ask them. And
don't let them just reply a canned response, try to get to talk to
someone who'll say : "No, we don't have that yet". Maybe, if you're
lucky, they'll say : "We're planning on it, more news will follow." If
you're unlucky, you'll get : "Aii Pee Vee Howmany ?"
Make sure to at least put it on their radar. Yes, they will just
ignore the one guy asking for IPv6, but if more people ask for it,
they might actually look into it (hey, I can always hope...)
| There are various tunnel brokers to help you get started, Will Backman had an
| article published a while back on implementing IPv6, I've gone with SixXS
| (sixxs.net, check out net/aiccu in ports). Its pretty straightforward.
| What do you reckon??
If you're up for it, just do it. You'll learn something useful,
configure some services on IPv6 and access them from your other
v6-ified machines, setup pf to do v6 firewalling, tcpdump around a
bit. At least it's a useful learning experience. I wouldn't recommend
hosting actual (important) services behind a tunnel, though. For more
important stuff where you really want to use IPv6, get yourself a
decent ISP that supports it properly (I realize this is not an option
for everybody).
Just my 0.02 monetary units.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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