Re: Switching to IPv6?
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 13:05 -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: I've been considering switching my home network to IPv6. I have a computer acting as a firewall sitting between my ISP and my three LANs at home. Of course, my DSL provider gives me an IPv4 address, and everything I want to access on the Internet is on an IPv4 network. The whole point is to learn to set up IPv6, to play with IPv6, and to become familiar with it, so when the day comes that the world actually uses IPv6 (ha ha) I'm ready, armed with knowledge. But the whole idea will go to pot if my firewall can't let my IPv6 networks access my IPv4 Internet connection. Does FreeBSD 7 provide such facilities as to allow access to an IPv4 network from an IPv6 network? What will my Vista, XP, and FreeBSD clients do if they only have an IPv6 address and I try to go to google.com or freebsd.org which are on IPv4 networks? i would like to recommend that you visit at http://ipv6.he.net/ ;; that's simple if you wish to get both ipv6 and ipv4 ;; byunghee -- Old friend, I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me. -- Vito Corleone, Chapter 1, page 47 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switching to IPv6?
I've been considering switching my home network to IPv6. I have a computer acting as a firewall sitting between my ISP and my three LANs at home. Of course, my DSL provider gives me an IPv4 address, and everything I want to access on the Internet is on an IPv4 network. The whole point is to learn to set up IPv6, to play with IPv6, and to become familiar with it, so when the day comes that the world actually uses IPv6 (ha ha) I'm ready, armed with knowledge. But the whole idea will go to pot if my firewall can't let my IPv6 networks access my IPv4 Internet connection. Does FreeBSD 7 provide such facilities as to allow access to an IPv4 network from an IPv6 network? What will my Vista, XP, and FreeBSD clients do if they only have an IPv6 address and I try to go to google.com or freebsd.org which are on IPv4 networks? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching to IPv6?
FreeBSD Questions wrote: I've been considering switching my home network to IPv6. I have a computer acting as a firewall sitting between my ISP and my three LANs at home. Of course, my DSL provider gives me an IPv4 address, and everything I want to access on the Internet is on an IPv4 network. The whole point is to learn to set up IPv6, to play with IPv6, and to become familiar with it, so when the day comes that the world actually uses IPv6 (ha ha) I'm ready, armed with knowledge. Have you considered going dual-stack, v4 and v6, and then getting a v6 tunnel free from one of the tunnel brokers? I'm doing that to ease myself into the v6 world, with, I suspect, considerably less pain than would be involved with v6 only. But the whole idea will go to pot if my firewall can't let my IPv6 networks access my IPv4 Internet connection. Does FreeBSD 7 provide such facilities as to allow access to an IPv4 network from an IPv6 network? What will my Vista, XP, and FreeBSD clients do if they only have an IPv6 address and I try to go to google.com or freebsd.org which are on IPv4 networks? There have reportedly been problems with people turning on v6 on their stacks when their ISPs don't support it and then getting upset when they can no longer get to anything that has an record as well as an A. (Some browsers try v6 first and, at best, have to time out before they try v4.) That's probably the reason you have to use ipv6.google.com However, last I checked, www.freebsd.org worked just fine on the v6 Internet. Sobad examples. :-) However, unless you're making use of translation between v4 and v6, if you go v6 only you won't be talking to the v4 Internet at all. Those A records just won't be of any use to your software. See something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_translation_mechanisms for more. --Jon Radel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
