I'm not going to call this 'Joy of six'. No.

[hirez]

For a laugh (FAVO 'laugh'), I've bagged myself a block of IPv6 addresses and a 6-over-4 tunnel from Hurricane Electric. It's mostly disturbingly simple.

Mostly.

See, IPv6 will autoconfig on hosts. (ie, things that are not routers, which do packet-forwarding) Thus the XP box and the Macbook have both managed Neighbour Discovery and picked up address (2001:470:1f09:49f:adae:80d7:afbc:66cc, for instance) and default route from the BSD box. However, all the docs say to config your outside interface as the tunnel endpoint (obv) and the internal one as where the route-advertisment daemon lives (obv also). Which is fine, but since the BSD box is a router, it won't autoconfig and the internal interface ends up with a link-local address which it hands out as default route. This is non-optimal.

I'd best hand-config that internal interface. Then I can start with the Scally DNS. (cos it's all AAAA records, innit?)

(It's IP survivalism, isn't it? Grand panic about the Internets running out of addresses, so people are taking to their bunkers with personal hoards of them.)


Of course, I could be talking complete toss.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Um... I think hoarding ipv4 addresses might be sort of sensible. Hoarding IPv6 addresses... you're looking to the very long term future before that turns out useful. (Only 43 trillion left get em while they're hot).

Because my flatmate is a luddite who enjoys pain our flat outgoing router is running BSD. Because he's a champion of crap technologies he has it working to IPv6 so you could always ask him how he's doing it.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

I've stayed away from IPv6, especially where Unix and Linux boxes are concerned. There's enough problems with kernel routing using IPv4. Not to mention all the support at the thin end of the wedge. Can you imagine having to transcribe 32 character IP addresses? People have enough problems with 18 character credit card numbers.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

When we built the IPv6 rig at $work-1, we used Linux (ugh!) and BSD boxes because they were the only things that worked right.

IPv6 rDNS is a massive faff. Yes, I can imagine transcribing them.

[andrewducker]

I've been tempted by this - but I'm using DD-WRT on a Linksys router - and I'm not convinced that that's going to be that easy to config...

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

indeed simples (wierd squeeke)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. Looking at the relevant doc, it doesn't look quite as supported as BSD. I have a WRT54g in circuit, but it's still running the standard code.