IPv6

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Fri Dec 14 12:14:15 EST 2012


On 12/14/2012 11:23 AM, Chip Marshall wrote:
> Just curious, but how many people have IPv6 access at home,
> or are interested in getting it? Do you even care if you have
> v6 or not?
>
> If you do have it, native from the ISP, or are you running a
> tunnel?
>
> If you don't have it, would you be interested in learning how to
> set up a tunnel if your ISP doesn't supply it?
>
>
> Personally, I'm on Comcast at home, my cable modem doesn't
> support DOCSIS 3, so I can't get v6 from Comcast yet (assuming
> I'm on one of the nodes that supports it.) I have a FreeBSD box
> acting as my router with a tunnel connected to Hurricane Electric
> for IPv6, just doing SLAAC on the inside for addressing.
>
>
I'm on FIOS and have an IPv6 tunnel through HE on my OpenWRT router.

I'm still trying to figure out what advantages this gives me since most 
of the world (including $EMPLOYER) is still IPv4-only, but I figure if 
use starts to increase I'll be ready for it.

HE has really good directions on how to set up the broker on your 
particular system.



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