Re: where to start?
Thanks martin and Tony for your pointers and suggestions. I have my
IPv6 enabled kernel, and I get link-local addresses on eth[01]
automagically. I can ping the loopback interface or the link-local
ones just fine. I couldn't ping www.kame.net or any other IPv6 host,
even though I followed the directions in the howtos. Using
traceroute6 I saw that my packets crossed one hop and got no further.
See more comments further down.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:43:04AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2002.02.19.0355 +0100]:
| > What I'm wondering is how I would go about trying to use IPv6. I know
| > the first step is to include it in my kernel. I don't know where to
| > go after that.
|
| without trying to be a bitch:
|
| http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/
|
| you'll have to excuse his english at times, i am in the process of
| translating it proper (peter bieringer sits right next to me at work).
That's cool. His english isn't perfect, but it isn't bad either.
Very comprehensible.
| however, you'll need to forget most of IPv4 and understand IPv6 first
| before you can even try...
It doesn't sound like it so far. Maybe I just don't know enough IPv4
for it to really trip me up.
| > Surely I will need to get a v6 IP address from
| > somewhere and I would need to have other host(s) on the network also
| > using IPv6.
|
| you already have an IPv6 for each of those. probably even multiple
| ones.
That's cool. I like that :-).
| > (I'm familiar with the 5-layer model of the Internet)
|
| i know a 4 and a 7 layer model: DoD's TCP/IP and ISO/OSI respectively.
| which one is yours? or are you simply using ISO/OSI and ignoring
| dara link and physical, the lowest two? that would be completely
| acceptable btw, but it's not the 5-layer model of the internet.
It's the ISO/OSI model with the two layers below the top one removed.
Like this :
1) physical (wire)
2) link (ethernet)
3) network (IP)
4) transport (TCP or UDP)
5) application (HTTP, SSH, FTP, etc)
| > Are there publicly accessible IPv6 hosts (ie web sites and the like)?
| > It seems logical that I would need to tunnel the IPv6 over IPv4 to get
| > the packets through my ISP to the remote host.
|
| how's your german?
Uh, ... hamburg frankfurt sauerkraut sandwich ... that doesn't
count, does it?
| but
| http://www.freenet6.net/
| is probably better for you since you are a private perso.
| > Is there a possibility that people/providers/whoever will actually
| > do that at all, essentially giving me an IPv6 address with no extra
| > cost/effort on my part?
|
| yes. freenet6 or join.
Ok, I browsed www.freenet6.net a bit. It looks like they have a
service akin to the ddts service. I haven't signed up yet, but I
installed the 'freenet6' package. Now I can ping6 www.kame.net. I
can also browse it with galeon and get the animated turtle (before it
would just timeout even though I could IPv4-ping it). Just to test
it, I purged the freenet6 package and couldn't ping6 anymore. A
reinstall and I can ping6. I wonder what it does that makes it work ...
(oh, yeah, I didn't configure 'freenet6' at all).
Most of it is quite clear, though I'm not sure about the sit[01]
devices and the details of the routing tables. That's where I need to
look next, when I get some time to spend on it. However, if anyone
feels the desire to explain it here, I'm all ears :-).
-D
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