Following Dan Anderson’s instructions, I set up an IPv6 tunnel and put my home network on IPv6. It was surprisingly easy. I have an OpenSolaris server acting as the tunnel end point and IPv6 router, with IPv6 tunneled to Hurricane Electric, and didn’t spend much more than an hour doing it.
Following Dan’s instructions, I:
Signed up at Hurricane Electrics tunnel broker service, requested a /64 & created a tunnel
- Configured my OpenSolaris server as a tunnel end point
- Configured Solaris’s IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) service & reloaded it
- Pointed my devices at HE’s DNS’s
- ‘Bounced’ the wireless adapters on my various notebooks, netbooks and Mac’s
I didn’t have to reboot anything – and better yet – when I did reboot the various devices, IPv6 still worked.
I’m not sure why I needed to use HE’s name servers, but things started working a lot better when I did, and their name servers seem to work as good as anyone’s.
I think I got lucky – my DLINK DIR-655 home router/access point routes protocol 41 just fine. No configuration necessary.
I don’t have a static IP, so when my ISP moves me around, I’ll have to log in to Tunnel Broker and tweak the tunnel end point. That shouldn’t be a big deal – my ISP only changes my IP address once a year or so.
The ‘ShowIP’ Firefox plugin was very useful. It makes it clear when I’m using V6 vs V4.
Security considerations? I’ll tack them on to the end of the project and address them after implementation.
