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IPv6 Friendly ISPs?

Posted by Cliff on from the while-IPv4-refuses-to-hold-its-breath dept.

ps asks: "In light of our recent discussions, does anyone know of an IPv6 capable ISP? DSL, cable, dialup even? Googling for this only shows one ISP in Japan that has IPv6."

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  1. Re:You don't need an ISP, use a 6to4 tunnel by foom · · Score: 5, Informative
    Oh yes, I forgot, I also found a bunch of links that might be useful to anyone wanting to set up IPv6, so here they are:
  2. Re:I might be wrong but... by foom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep there is. Almost every OS includes those tools now. ping6, traceroute6, host -t AAAA name, telnet, etc.

    Linux has them. Windows XP has them. MacOSX has them. xBSD has them (at least some of the xBSDs that is, I don't use them so I don't really know).

    If you're using debian, apt-get install iputils-tracepath iputils-ping iputils-arping iproute.

    That'll give you the traceroute6, ping6, tracepath6. It also gives you the "ip" command which is a replacement for ifconfig and route and a couple more things. nslookup and dig and host all will find IPv6 addresses, if you specify to do so by asking for records of type "AAAA" (in MacOSX, it finds them by default, but seemingly not in linux). Both telnet and ssh work fine.

  3. Tunnel with freenet6 by kylegordon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Use http://www.freenet6.net to get yourself a free tunneling link to the 6bone. They'll also give you a /48 subnet if you tweak a few bits.
    Plenty of clients available too. In Debian, simply apt-get it from your closest mirror ;-)