On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 05:12 +0000, Mark wrote:
I am not listening on IPv6 yet. Primarily because it always seemed like a
big hassle getting everything converted. But maybe it is indeed time I
started looking into this. My own provider already offers an IPv6-to-IPv4
tunnel. :)
It's not a lot of hassle any more, especially if you just use 6to4.
Each IPv4 address (eg. xx.yy.zz.ww) automatically buys you a whole /48
IPv6 subnet 2002:xxyy:zzww:0:0:0:0:0/48. Packets to hosts within the
2000::/16 subnet get automatically sent in IPv4 encapsulation to the
IPv4 address in bits 16-47 of the address. Packets destined for anywhere
else get sent to one of the hosts out there with the magic anycast IPv4
address 192.88.99.1, which will forward them on the real IPv6 network.
See http://yyz.us/ipv6-fc2-howto.html for an example of how to set this
up. Although it says Fedora Core 2, in fact the instructions are valid
as far back as Red Hat Linux 7. You can even do 6to4 in Windows:
http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/docs/6to4.htm
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