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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2011-06-08 9:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> After that, machines on my local network (including wifi) can get both |
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>> IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the router and can talk to the outside |
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>> world on either network. |
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> I'm getting a headache... |
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> Is there a decent guide that explains IPV6 for noobs who don't speak IP? |
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> Meaning, in plain english, how to set it up and make it work, without |
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> having to understand all of the granular technical aspects? |
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Short version - if your ISP and your networking hardware |
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(gateway/router/firewall/whatever) already support IPv6, you simply |
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need to enable all the IPv6 stuff in your kernel, enable "ipv6" USE |
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flag in your /etc/make.conf and rebuild affected packages. If you use |
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DHCP/autoconfig it should just work automatically. |
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Otherwise, you need to jump through the hoops we're talking about to |
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establish tunnels or other means of getting IPv6 over a network that |
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is not IPv6-capable. You can decide if you care enough about that kind |
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of thing to shed your noob-ness and get into it more. :) |
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The only real benefit of being on IPv6 at the moment is that every |
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device has an internet-accissble address. That means no more NAT |
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forwarding from your router to ports on certain devices. Otherwise, |
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there's basically no perceivable benefits from using IPv6, other than |
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the geek cred you earn by saying you're on IPv6. :) |
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Another benefit, a side-effect of the fact that that most places are |
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NOT ready for IPv6 yet, means many internet filters and loggers ignore |
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IPv6 packages entirely. I've read that using IPv6 is one way to get |
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around the great firewalls of oppressive regimes like China, Iran and |
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universities. :) I don't expect that to last very long once more |
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people start using it. |
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For an unscientific example of how many people are using IPv6, the |
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Mainline DHT network shows several million clients connected on IPv4 |
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but only 78 clients on IPv6... |
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> Also - how long is it going to be before there are parts of the internet |
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> that you can't get to without speaking IPV6? |
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There are some v6-only sites now, but they are basically sites that |
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also exist on ipv4 internet and are used for testing/proof-of-concept. |
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Given the billions of non-v6-capable devices on the internet, it would |
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be commercial suicide for a company to leave the IPv4 Internet any |
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time soon. I would guess you should be fine for another 10 years using |
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IPv4-only. |
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