[mdlug] IPv6 anyone?

[Michael Mol]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Joe Doehler <lugnuts at doehler.us> wrote:
> On 2/10/2012 5:48 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>> Joe Doehler wrote:
>>> Has anyone's ISP here implemented IPv6? If not, has anyone
>>> contemplated free IPv6 services like: http://www.he.net/
>>
>> Contemplated.  Tested.  Used.  Put into production.  Twice.
>>
>> I'm currently using he.net for a VPS, a server at home and several
>> workstations.  It was rather easy to set up and has worked flawlessly
>> for several weeks.
>
> Thanks to all who answered. Looks like "he.net" is a good way to go. I
> have older devices on my home network that speak only IPv4, so I'll
> leave that subnet alone. But my e-mail/web server (Ubuntu 10.10) is on a
> different, dedicated IP, and I'll play with that.

The recommended approach is to have both IPv6 and IPv4 on the same
network. This is called dual-stack. Devices on the network which
support IPv4 will tie into that, devices which support IPv6 will tie
into that, devices which support both will tie into both.

My entire network at home is dual-stacked. The devices which are
IPv4-only (a wireless AP's management interface, and the PS3) interact
fine with devices which support both (everything else).

It's not an either/or thing; you can (and should) have both IPv6 and IPv4.

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