[gentoo-user] IPv6, now what?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hello. I recently got an IPv6 address for my small server (or perhaps I
recently got a lot of IPv6 address, I cannot tell) from my ISP.  This is
what I did in attempt to activate this address (all following exactly
what is written on the ISP's manual)

server root # ip addr add 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2/64 dev eth0
server root # ip route add 2000::/3 via 2001:41c8:1:53ae::1
server root # ip -6 addr show eth0
5: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP> qlen 1000
    inet6 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2/64 scope global
    inet6 fe80::fcfd:50ff:fe44:5d98/64 scope link
server root # ping6 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2
PING 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2(2001:41c8:1:53ae::2) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms
64 bytes from 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms
server root # ping6 www.ipv6.org
PING www.ipv6.org(igloo.stacken.kth.se) 56 data bytes

--- www.ipv6.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4024ms

Now what? Is my ipv6 address working now? I don't see a clue on how to
do testing.

Further more I found the documents closest ('closest' by the means of
google) is surprisingly outdated. I was thinking IPv6 is a hot topic
untill I get these documents, e.g.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO mension 2.5 kernel as
something in the future (they say 2.4 kernel do not have full support of
IPv6 and they are looking forward to have a kernel with good IPv6
support). Another document says the latest kernel version is 2.1
(http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/systems/linux/faq/linux-ipv6.faq-4.html#ss4.2). 
I am still going through the documents to find more knowledge.

One question important to me but I never understood well. If I have a
website only defined on IPv6 address, is this website accessible from
major platforms (e.g. Win2k+/modern Linux, IE 6+/Firefox 1+) without any
special configuration on the client side?
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