On: IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes

[mindslight]

Unless IPv6 will make consumer ISPs once again willing to give static addresses, there's no point waiting for them.

# apt-get install miredo

(Alternatively, if you already have a static IPv4 address and want a static IPv6 address, setup 6to4. This however is about ten times as hard, and will thus take about half an hour.)

[oasisbob → mindslight]

Teredo is a pretty clever technology, but there are a lot of downsides vs native v6:

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

[stavros → mindslight]

What the hell? It worked! How did it work?

[mindslight → stavros]

Hahaha. Public tunnel servers at major interconnection points. Having a packet stop off at a translation server isn't so terrible when it'd be traveling a similar path regardless. Play with ip6 a bit, and you'll gain a much different perspective of what is and is not important about it (sixxs.net will even give you a static ip6 address if you don't have a static ip4 address, but their tunnel servers can be quite out of the way).

[lloeki → mindslight]

> sixxs.net will even give you a static ip6 address

actually, a /64 initially, and a full /48 later down the road IIRC.

(here the steps are 1. get a sixxs account, 2. apt-get install aiccu, 3. put credentials in /etc/aiccu.conf)

[stavros → mindslight]

Thanks! Can you explain what the advantages are, briefly? For me, the major advantage would be easy NAT traversal, but I don't know if that can be done. I'm a bit confused by the whole thing, does this mean I now need to install a firewall on the machines behind the NAT? Do the services (e.g. SSH) need to also listen on the ipv6 adapter?

[zokier → mindslight]

he.net deserves a mention too. rumor has that it is bit less sucky than sixxs.

[justincormack → zokier]

Working fell for me for a year or so. Just chose it as they have local connections.