IPv6 – let the fun begin
22 January 2011
by Razvan Dobre
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And yes, it will happen one day and that day is not very far.
I went this morring to a rlug workshop about IPv6. The workshop took place in EG106 at UPB. The trainers were employments at a romanian ISP. They played a little with IPv6 to provide the ftp.lug.ro mirror over IPv6. In Romania ISP-providers don’t provide yet IPv6 connectivity but they managed to get a prefix from IANA and to put up ftpv6.lug.ro.
At the workshop the admins put up an 6to4 tunnel and in the lab there were like 14-16 computers with public IPv6 address. It was interesting how the 6to4 thing works: basicaly you can have IPv6 everywere. We tried a couple of websites that are IPv6 enabled and ya we surfed the google page over IPv6 (ipv6.google.com).
Before I went to the workshop – to do my homework – I configured a gogo6 tunnel on my server to play a little with IPv6. With gogo6 you will pe able to have public IPv6 address witch are tunnelled over IPv4 to gogo6 server end then unencapsulated till the IPv6 destination is reached, over the small IPv6 internet.
When the exams session will be over I will try and implement an 6to4 tunnel.
From know on, as long as the tunnel will be up, the server will be recheable using the hostname ipv6.doraz.ro for those currios to test your IPv6 infrastructure.
