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IPv6 Over OpenBSD
darkuncle writes: "While doing some research into setting up an OpenBSD box as a firewall/NAT box/DHCP server for my home network, I ran across a cool writeup at 2600 Australia about how to implement IPv6 on OpenBSD. For anybody that's been thinking about exploring IPv6, this article (along with the FAQ linked above) provides some good starting points. "
FreeBSD: most popular. Wants to be the best for x86. Until reciently didn't care at all about any other platform. Still doesn't care much. Probably the best choice though if your system is x86
NetBSD: try to run on all useful platforms. If it is a comptuer netBSD wants to run on it. An excellent choice if you have many different comptuers with different strenghts. They all look the same from an admin point of view.
OpenBSD: orginally netBSD+, but not different enough. Doesn't care as much about portability (but has more supported platforms then freeBSD and can probably support all of netBSD's platforms with a little work) Wants to be the most secure OS possibal, and in fact it has been years since someone found a remotly exploitable security hole in default install. (You can of course configure it to be insecure.) Best choice if your not sure who will be attacking your system. (The others react quickly to problems, openBSD tends to proactivly avoid them)
However despite the above, the *BSDs are not much different. Pick one. Theo and his openBSD deservies a lot of criticism, but nobody will claim that openBSD is not technically excellent in their area. I should note too that most of openBSD's changes have filtered back into freeBSD and netBSD over time. I'm sure that linux devolpers have looked them over too. And of course it runs in the other way.
The best thing to do is have an infiniate amount of machines and time, so that you can run all 3 *BSDs, every linux distribution, and whatever else you can get your hand on. Then decide for yourself.
You can also check out:
These are routers with support for IPv6 routing protocols, such as RIPng, OSPFv6 and BGP4+. (For GateD, you want the GateD 3.6-ipv6 snapshot.)
Last, but by no means least, there's a wealth of information at the "principle" IPv6 sites:
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
To anyone who doesn't regularly read the BSD section this will seem like a fresh new post.
In reality its been cut 'n pasted so many times its beyond belief. Someone really has it out for *BSD.
There are few worthy projects out there that DO NOT have interesting characters and wild political battles. Please take into consideration the technical merits of these operating systems, and remember that some people hate *BSDs for political reasons that are just as lowly as the not so nice stuff that goes on in the OS battles.
Well, then you haven't been doing your homework. A quick search at amazon shows a couple of books of interest, like this:
Caveat: as I am only a Linux user at home and stuck on WinNT at work, and have not even tried connecting to a 6 bone yet or doing IPv6 tunneling with IPv4, I can't vouch for how well the instructions work, but they look right, AFAICT.
...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
I would like to propose an IPv6 day, in which all Slashdot readers sign up with an IPv6 tunnel provider and spend the day -just- using IPv6.
Whilst it might have absolutely no effect on outside opinion, it might give IPv6 a much-needed injection of interest. And that might pave the way for IPv6 to move out of obscurity and into general awareness.
If there is interest in this idea, I'd like to propose June 4th as our own Independence Day. In this case, independence from IPv4.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Books...
Ipv6 : The Next Generation Internet Protocol Stewart S. Miller; Paperback
IP Addressing & Subnetting Including IPv6 Syngress Media; Paperback
Ipv6 Networks Marcus Goncalves, Kitty Niles; Paperback
And of course IPv6.org is an excellent source of info on the next generation for the internet.
Its already here as a networking technology and for many areas its increased security model enables things that couldn't previously be done. Big privacy question marks over it though.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Yes folks, you read it here first on Slashdot. OpenBSD, a Canadian operating system written by Theo deRaadt while he was a grad student in Finland, is officially supporting the IPv6 so-called "standard". I ask you, what is wrong with the current IPv4 implementation? Our fine, American protocols have dragged this network out of a mess of ivory towers and into the lives of all hard-working people around the world. And no these "hackers" want to just up and destroy it, replacing it with some insiduous software developed in Japan, which has already brought about the total degredation of American youth through the Satanic influences of its "Pokemon" cult. Have we forgotten December 7th, 1941, "A day that will live in infamy", my friends?
So what, you might be asking yourself, is so special about IPv6 that these Canadians and Japanese would be investing so much time in it? Let me tell you. In IPv4, there are only a few IP addresses to go around, and this creates the supply and demand reactions that fuel the machines of Capitalism. Not everyone can have one, and certainly few can hold on to them forever. But in this new system, the range of addresses in increased exponentially: everyone will be forced to have one by the government. You thought social security, FDR's plot to control the citizens by reducing them to numbers, was bad? Wait till the government outlaws naming children with good, Christian names. That's right folks, if those fat cats in Washington have their way, your next child may well be designated, by the government, as being "3ffe:b00:c18:1fff:0:0:0:2d9". Try singing those sweet lullabies to children with that name. No doubt it will inspire many normally-godfearing women to murder their unborn children at the slaughtering "clinics", which is what liberals, with their hatred of all that is human, really want.
And don't think that you'll walk away scot-free either. You're new, government-assigned IP address will be used to identify you on the new government work farms. Think you like your cushy job as a Visual Basic programmer? Wait till Washington has you picking tomatoes on a desert farm in Mexico. I've never been wrong before, folks, so I know I'm right this time. IPv6 is a tool of the Illuminati, and it's branch organizaions like the Jewish Banking Interests and the Democratic Party, to control the hearts and minds of decent, Christian Americans. Don't let these Japanese "researchers", or their partner in crime, Theo deRaadt, infiltrate into your network. America's future depends on it.
A.K.A. Windows NT, unrelated to the other BSDs, this one stands for Blue Screen of Death.
Some people claim that MS can't produce a stable operating sytem, but winBSD is the ultimate in stability. Once you manage to boot winBSD (inexplicably, there is no official option to boot directly into it, but there are many ways to start it), it will run forever, disregarding anything short of a power outage.
Some may complain that there is no software for winBSD, but people make the same complaint about Linux, and the same answer applies: that doesn't make the OS bad. You can already enjoy such entertaining games as "Swear at the Screen" and "Ignore all Inputs". So start developing for winBSD today!