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Learning IPv6?

Posted by Cliff on from the picking-up-a-new-skill dept.

fsckme asks: "With IPv6 starting to filter its was into the internet I thought that it was about time to learn it. However digging around I've found sites like www.ipv6.org and the IPv6 FAQ but I haven't found a tutorial teaching the basics. Can anyone recommend a nice web based tutorial of even a decent book?"

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  1. I'd like a tutorial on by redcliffe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    turning your windows, mac and linux combination network from IPv4 to v6. I've seen a lot of articles that cover part of it, but I'd like a step by step on the whole process. Thanks,

    David

  2. Re:Comer by hazen_vs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux Magazene's Last months Issue has a very comphrensive overview. As well as the following sites.

    Solaris 8 Faq
    IPng Overview
    Juniper's Perspective

    For those in the "Know" BSD has had V6 compliance for quite some time now. OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD all support it but OpenBSD will install v6 by default due to it's added security mesaures.

    By the way, "IT's all infrastructre?!" A statement that those of us whom actually provide said "Infrastructure" make it seem simple much like magic, it's seamleass and it works well than it's abvoiusly a testament to those that put "it" together.

    IPv6 will often be refferd to as IPng in earlier documents.

    For those of you whom think "Well I should just plug in to v6 and I'm there." I have only one though; Ignorance is bliss and there are a lot of blissful people out there.


    --
    Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment ~Tesla
  3. solaris article in Sysadmin by obtuse · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was an article in Sysadmin magazine recently.

    Getting on the 6bone Quickly With Solaris8
    http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1441/sa m0111d/

    --
    Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.
  4. Freenet6 by larse · · Score: 4, Informative
    Not so much a tutorial, but Freenet6 makes it *very* easy to connect to the 6bone, if your upstream ISP doesn't support IPv6 yet:

    http://www.freenet6.net/

    And they are part of the FreeBSD ports tree already.

  5. what about IPv6 do you want to learn? by noahm · · Score: 4, Informative
    You didn't make it clear if you wanted to learn how to set up IPv6 on your network, or if you wanted to learn to program IPv6-enabled apps. You also didn't indicate what OS you are using, which means you can really only get general answers.

    Programming IPv6 apps is actually quite easy, and actually involves programming protocol family independent code if you want to do it right. On the client end, this basically involves using a function (getaddrinfo(3)) to get a linked list of all addresses associated with a given hostname in any protocol family (IPv4, v6, or even something fun like AppleTalk) and walking along the list until you get a good connection. This has the added advantage that if you are trying to connect to a host that has multiple IP addresses, and some of them are non-responsive (i.e. a round-robin DNS situation), your client will try connecting to each IP address until it succeeds.

    If you're trying to learn how to configure and use IPv6 on your hosts, try some of these: