sean’s place

IPv6

I’ve started to play around again with IPv6; this time with tunnels from Hurricane Electric!

My setup includes 2 tunnels: one tunnel from the LAX tunnel server with a /48 to my home networks. The other tunnel terminates in Chicago and is for my colocated server down in Morrison. I’m looking forward to the day when I can get native IPv6 down the wire from both my ISPs.

As I learn more and experiment with IPv6 (will hopefully have full dual-stack networks at home soon), I’m becoming more and more convinced that IPv6 is the Linux of this decade. It has the hallmarks: it’s new (but not too new), it’s challenging to learn and implement, and it’s more or less targeted at a niche community trying to build it out towards critical mass. Moreover, there are no immediate rewards (short of the know-how) to setting it up.

I really have to give kudos to Hurricane Electric for evangelizing as they do. They’re helping to enable a whole new generation of the internet — free of such perversions like NAT and rich with address space for anything and everything you can conceive of. Cheers.