IPv6 Corner

Operating Systems & Applications

• NetBSD IPv6 Page
• IPv6 enabled applications for NetBSD
• 6to4, my script to help setting up 6to4 IPv6 not only for NetBSD; available in pkgsrc/net/hf6to4
• My patch to sirc 2.211 to support IPv6. Of course the patch is not 100% complete as things like DCC (direct client to client communication) and CTCP (client to client protocol) aren't up to the job yet. Cannot connect to from a v4-only host to a v6-only host today, and thus that's not touched byt he patch at all. ;)
• Enabling IPv6 in the NetBSD Mozilla package
• A patch against ssh-1.2.27-IPv6-1.5 to get it working with Solaris 8/x86's broken getaddrinfo() function.

• A CGI-script that determines if the request is sent via IPv4 or IPv6, and that redirects to a protocol-specific image then. Use with <img src=".../image.cgi">. (If there is a dæmon dancing around the "IPv6 ready" logo on the left, you are using IPv6!)

• Accessing IPv4-only websites via IPv6 with SiXS

Information & Introductions

• IPv6 & 6to4, Part I: My general introduction to IPv6 in comparison to IPv4; published at O'Reilly
• IPv6 & 6to4, Part II: Getting Connected with 6to4: My 6to4 setup instructions for Linux and BSD, published at O'Reilly
• My Introduction to 6to4 IPv6 Networking, published in DaemonNews
• My slides for the presentation at the IPv6 forum of the 34th operations meeting of the german research network (DFN e.V.): Konzept und Setup eines 6to4 Gateways an der FH Regensburg (20 pages, german language; 220k, PDF)
• Presentations at Managerakademie Ueberreuter's "IPv6 - Das neue Internet-Protokoll" conference Sep 19/20th 2001 (cancelled):
  • Rapid Deployment von IPv6 mit 6to4: handout
  • IPv6 & BSD: handout
• How to setup 6to4 IPv6 with SuSE 7.3
• Presentation "Rapid Deployment von IPv6 mit 6to4" at the Spring Meeting (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) 2002 of the German Unix User Group (GUUG): Handout (PDF/HTML), Slides
• Presentation "Rapid Deployment von IPv6 mit 6to4" at the 19th Chaos Communications Congress 2002 of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC): Handout (PDF/HTML), Slides
• Presentation "IPv6 an der FH Regensburg" at the BHN Meeting at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule, FH) of Regensburg in Feb 2005

• US-Verteidigungsministerium schreibt bereits heute IPv6 zwingend in Projekten vor, Migration bis 2008
• Verteidigungsministerium plant Einfuehrung von IPv6
• Bundesministerium der Verteidigung will IPv6 einführen
• Europa soll bei Einführung von IPv6 aufholen
• Unternehmen wie Siemens, T-Systems und NEC treiben zusammen in der European IPv6 Task Force Einsatz und Entwicklung von IPv6 voran
• BMBF fördert Strukturwandel hin zur Internetökonomie, IPv6 ist hier Bestandteil
• Richtlinien von BMFT-Projekten schreiben IPv6 vor

• Book: Internetworking IPv6 with Cisco Routers by Silvano Gai
• Uni Münster: German Language Introduction to IPv6
• JOIN Project, Uni Müster
• Freenet6.net: Free tunnels
• IPv6-enabled IRC servers: irc.skynet.be irc.belnet.be irc.wanadoo.be irc.missingu.com
• RFCs:
  • 3513: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
  • 3587: An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format
  • 3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4)
  • 3964: Security considerations for 6to4

FH Regensburg

• IPv6 Working Group:
  • Performance Measurements
• FH Regensburg's 6bone registry entry
• AAAA-Patch for the FHR DNS system
• An /etc/netstart.local example file displaying setup of a static tunnel and 6to4 under NetBSD 1.6.2. Don't forget to configure /etc/rc.conf:

       ip6mode=router
       rtadvd=yes
       rtadvd_flags="ex0"
       

• 6to4 gateway: 6to4.ipv6.fh-regensburg.de
• MRTG statistics:
  • Tunnel to DFN
  • 6to4 Gateway
  • LAN
  • Round Trip Time to FH-Regensburg from Uni-Bonn, for both IPv4 and IPv6