11.02
So I brought up an IPv6 tunnel from the fine people at Hurricane Electric. It’s kinda cool in it’s way. I can now see the the dancing kame, can you?
The gateway configuration was pretty straight foreward as HE has docs for configuring a gaggle of OSes. The client configuration was simply a snap. My OpenBSD boxen required only two config changes to autoconfigure on IPv6 and my work’s Windows lappy required just adding the IPv6 protocol to the network interface. Best of all the OS X 10.4 Macs just worked.
The harder part was handling such niceties as firewalling and DNS. My home network, like most, uses NAT to cram my home rfc1918 IP addresses into one IP address on the outside. There’s no need for this with IPv6 so now everything suddenly became both visible and accessable if you knew it’s 128bit IPv6 IP address.
Which brings us to DNS, which had similar issues. No longer were there such things as “internal addresses” and “external addresses” we’re all on the same friendly internet now. This took a few days to get right (and in fact am STILL tweaking on it) but it seems to be where I like it.
The only remaining issues is web serving over IPv6. OpenBSD’s Apache web server doesn’t support IPv6 out of the box, so if I want web services on IPv6 it’s www/lighttpd from ports.
