Hi forum.
I want to make my first foray into the world of IPv6 for the sake of educating myself and being able to add it to my CV. I'm after some advice on the best IPv6 solutions to deploy based on the following setup:
What I want to do is get my dedicated host and home network onto the IPv6 internet, but am confused by all the different transitional solutions available.
A colleague keeps suggesting Teredo Tunnelling, but as far as I can tell this is for tunnelling IPv6 traffic through a non-IPv6-capable router device, such as the NetGear/Linksys home routers a lot of people use. I don't think that applies to my situation as I have IPv6-capable hosts directly connected to the IPv4 Internet.
It looks like 6to4 might be what I need to give these hosts their IPv6 address. Is this correct?
Once I've given my home FreeBSD gateway its IPv6 address, how do I then extend IPv6 connectivity to the devices behind it on my home LAN?
I'm not after specific Howto instructions. I just need pointing in the right direction on what solution I use, so I don't waste time researching and setting up the wrong thing.
Many thanks for any advice.
I want to make my first foray into the world of IPv6 for the sake of educating myself and being able to add it to my CV. I'm after some advice on the best IPv6 solutions to deploy based on the following setup:
- I have a dedicated FreeBSD host at a hosting provider with a public IPv4 address. The hosting provider doesn't support IPv6.
- I have a static IPv4 address on my home broadband connection, assigned directly to a FreeBSD host that I use as the NATing gateway for a RFC1918 LAN. The ISP doesn't support IPv6.
What I want to do is get my dedicated host and home network onto the IPv6 internet, but am confused by all the different transitional solutions available.
A colleague keeps suggesting Teredo Tunnelling, but as far as I can tell this is for tunnelling IPv6 traffic through a non-IPv6-capable router device, such as the NetGear/Linksys home routers a lot of people use. I don't think that applies to my situation as I have IPv6-capable hosts directly connected to the IPv4 Internet.
It looks like 6to4 might be what I need to give these hosts their IPv6 address. Is this correct?
Once I've given my home FreeBSD gateway its IPv6 address, how do I then extend IPv6 connectivity to the devices behind it on my home LAN?
I'm not after specific Howto instructions. I just need pointing in the right direction on what solution I use, so I don't waste time researching and setting up the wrong thing.
Many thanks for any advice.