Dog_One
06-09-2003, 08:53 AM
Hey all,
I just finished connecting my Linux server to the IPv6 "Internet" by way of an IPv4 tunnel. If you're a Windows user, XP SP1 has the IPv6 protocol; it's named "Microsoft IPv6 Developers Edition". You'll have to experiment with it--all I know for now is that it tries to autoconfigure everything but does have command line support for customization.
From what I can tell, IPv6 will someday replace IPv4, but for now it will have to integrate alongside it. I use Time Warner's RoadRunner ISP for Internet connectivity and it doesn't directly support IPv6. In fact, the techs at RoadRunner seem to know almost zero about it. So to get going, I had to use a tunnel. Hurricane Electric (http://tunnelbroker.net/) was fairly painless to setup and it has a couple of testing utilities integrated with its website--pretty slick. I'm running Redhat 9 and many of the network start scripts directly support IPv6--just key in the variables and your assigned values and you're off to the races at each reboot. For applications, email, web and DNS are ready to rumble out-of-the-box with Redhat 9. The many others, I have yet to experiment with.
I think given a little time, most folks that work with IPv6 will see the power it offers and be ready to dump IPv4 in short notice. I know I would if I didn't ever again have to rely on IPv4 for all the stuff only accessable via Internet Protocol version 4.
I just finished connecting my Linux server to the IPv6 "Internet" by way of an IPv4 tunnel. If you're a Windows user, XP SP1 has the IPv6 protocol; it's named "Microsoft IPv6 Developers Edition". You'll have to experiment with it--all I know for now is that it tries to autoconfigure everything but does have command line support for customization.
From what I can tell, IPv6 will someday replace IPv4, but for now it will have to integrate alongside it. I use Time Warner's RoadRunner ISP for Internet connectivity and it doesn't directly support IPv6. In fact, the techs at RoadRunner seem to know almost zero about it. So to get going, I had to use a tunnel. Hurricane Electric (http://tunnelbroker.net/) was fairly painless to setup and it has a couple of testing utilities integrated with its website--pretty slick. I'm running Redhat 9 and many of the network start scripts directly support IPv6--just key in the variables and your assigned values and you're off to the races at each reboot. For applications, email, web and DNS are ready to rumble out-of-the-box with Redhat 9. The many others, I have yet to experiment with.
I think given a little time, most folks that work with IPv6 will see the power it offers and be ready to dump IPv4 in short notice. I know I would if I didn't ever again have to rely on IPv4 for all the stuff only accessable via Internet Protocol version 4.