Re: IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 7/28/2016 11:39 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Mark Komarinski writes: > >> Hurricane Electric has some good resources plus a tunnel broker to give you >> IPv6 in the event your ISP doesn't support it yet. >> >> https://tunnelbroker.net > What k

Re: IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-28 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Mark Komarinski writes: > Hurricane Electric has some good resources plus a tunnel broker to give you > IPv6 in the event your ISP doesn't support it yet. > > https://tunnelbroker.net What kind of performance do you get from Hurricane? Have you run e.g. a speedtest over

Re: IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-27 Thread michael . lowry
I've been running a tunnel to Hurricane Electric for several years now, and would also recommend them if you're looking for some practical experience. One book I've heard recommended several times is Ed Horley's book Practical IPv6 for Windows Administrators.  Does ge

Re: IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-27 Thread John Abreau
Third edition of O'Reilly's "IPv6 Essentials" is from 2014. On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > My replies in Gmail are not going back to the list, for some reason. > > Let me also put in a plug for Hurricane Electric at Tunnelbroker.net > th

Re: IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-27 Thread Curt Howland
My replies in Gmail are not going back to the list, for some reason. Let me also put in a plug for Hurricane Electric at Tunnelbroker.net their IPv6 resources are excellent. A friend of mine, Owen DeLong, was their IPv6 evangelist for several years. On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Curt Howland

RE: IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
Hurricane Electric has some good resources plus a tunnel broker to give you IPv6 in the event your ISP doesn't support it yet. https://tunnelbroker.net -Mark Original message From: Ken D'Ambrosio Date: 7/27/16 2:42 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Gnhlug Discuss Subject:

IPv6: it's probably about time I learned it.

2016-07-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
But holy crow! Most of the books I find are either from Cisco (and, therefore, Cisco-centric), or at least a decade old, and I know that some things have changed along the road to actual adoption and implementation. Are there any resources that anyone can recommend -- electronic or dead tree

Re: IPv6?

2015-01-15 Thread Tom Buskey
Back in 2009, Comcast was redirecting DNS. When Comcast went all IPv6 (internally at least) they could no longer do this. They are one of the major users. I imagine there will be mixed v4 and v6 for awhile. IPv4 is well known and debugged. The security issues have been explored and mitigated

Re: IPv6?

2015-01-13 Thread Jason T. Nelson
In our last exciting episode, Joshua Judson Rosen (roz...@hackerposse.com) said: > Hm. That prompts a few follow-up questions: > > - Does "native Comcast IPv6" mean that Comcast is actually putting > their residential customers on IPv6 addresses now? > &g

Re: IPv6?

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 2015-01-13 16:32, Jason T. Nelson wrote: > In our last exciting episode, Joshua Judson Rosen (roz...@hackerposse.com) > said: >> On 2015-01-13 14:07, Mark Komarinski wrote: >>> IPv6? >> >> I wish. >> >> Quick poll: how many people here are actual

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Jason T. Nelson
In our last exciting episode, Matt Minuti (matt.min...@gmail.com) said: > Is there any sort of "idiot's 5 minute guide to IPv6" out there? My OpenWRT > router just kind of magically worked with Comcast, but I don't have a clue > how the address syntax works, what

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Matt Minuti
Is there any sort of "idiot's 5 minute guide to IPv6" out there? My OpenWRT router just kind of magically worked with Comcast, but I don't have a clue how the address syntax works, what a prefix is, what blocks are special-purpose (link-local, example, etc), or gener

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Jason T. Nelson
In our last exciting episode, Joshua Judson Rosen (roz...@hackerposse.com) said: > On 2015-01-13 14:07, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > IPv6? > > I wish. > > Quick poll: how many people here are actually using IPv6? How/why or why not? Pretty sure at least check, somewhere

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On January 13, 2015 3:18:10 PM EST, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >On 2015-01-13 14:07, Mark Komarinski wrote: >> IPv6? > >I wish. > >Quick poll: how many people here are actually using IPv6? How/why or >why not? I'm on FIOS who doesn't deploy it natively but I&

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 2015-01-13 14:07, Mark Komarinski wrote: > IPv6? I wish. Quick poll: how many people here are actually using IPv6? How/why or why not? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnh

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - Getting Started with IPv6

2014-04-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: April 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Getting Started with IPv6 Moderator:Walter Horowitz Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315 NOTE: The location has changed since last month! ### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed. ### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - Getting Started with IPv6

2014-04-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: April 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Getting Started with IPv6 Moderator:Walter Horowitz Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315 NOTE: The location has changed since last month! ### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed. ### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames

Re: iptables IPv6 logging

2014-01-03 Thread Curt Howland
", but it wasn't there. Found it. Networking support> Networking options? Packet filtering> Core netfilter config> LOG target support. Kind of interesting, IPv6 NAT is supported, too. Found that while traipsing around looking for LOG in all the wrong places. I found it by

iptables IPv6 logging

2014-01-03 Thread Curt Howland
outer does no packet filtering on IPv6 packets at all. None of the firewall / port-forwarding / virtual-server features exist for v6, so I'd best get my host firewalling in order. I built a very simple set of rules as a test, using examples online of course, and they seem to be working for all

Boston Linux Meeting reminder tomorrow, February 20, 2013 - IPV6 on a home network

2013-02-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
When:February 20, 2013 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: IPV6 on a home network Moderators:Daniel Hagerty Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315 Summary Deploying IPv6 on a home network Abstract Dan Hagerty talks about IPv6 connectivity on your own local home network. Dan's slides are o

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - IPV6 on a home network

2013-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
When:February 20, 2013 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: IPV6 on a home network Moderators:Daniel Hagerty Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315 Summary Deploying IPv6 on a home network Abstract Dan Hagerty talks about IPv6 connectivity on your own local home network. Dan's slides are o

Re: [GNHLUG] ManchLUG: Jan 22nd - IPv6 on Linux

2013-01-21 Thread kenta
Reminder, meeting tomorrow: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, kenta wrote: > Join us on Tuesday January 22nd for ManchLUG! This month Michael Lowry will > be giving us a primer on IPv6 on Linux. It will also be our first meeting of > the new year! > > Schedule: > 6:30 PM - Pre-

[GNHLUG] ManchLUG: Jan 22nd - IPv6 on Linux

2013-01-08 Thread kenta
Join us on Tuesday January 22nd for ManchLUG! This month Michael Lowry will be giving us a primer on IPv6 on Linux. It will also be our first meeting of the new year! Schedule: 6:30 PM - Pre-meeting social and geekery. If you're ordering food, please try to do so before the start o

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Jason T. Nelson
me, the usefulness immediately comes into play in that I can reach the hosts on my home network remotely without going through painful header mangling with NAT and port redirection on my network edge. I have various firewall rules blocking inbound access as necessary, of course. This all hinges on

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Joshua Ronne Altemoos
I personally use a tunnel from sixxs out of there Boston pop On Dec 14, 2012 11:25 AM, "Chip Marshall" wrote: > Just curious, but how many people have IPv6 access at home, > or are interested in getting it? Do you even care if you have > v6 or not? > > If you do have it

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Lowry
I've been running IPv6 for about 6 months now. I'm using a Scientific Linux box as a router and doing a tunnel to Hurricane Electric (DOCSIS 2 modem). Part of the reason for doing this was I was studying for CCNP at the time and there was some IPv6 on the test. I've config

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 12/14/2012 11:23 AM, Chip Marshall wrote: > Just curious, but how many people have IPv6 access at home, > or are interested in getting it? Do you even care if you have > v6 or not? > > If you do have it, native from the ISP, or are you running a > tunnel? > > If you don

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Derek Atkins
Hey Chip, Chip Marshall writes: > Just curious, but how many people have IPv6 access at home, > or are interested in getting it? Do you even care if you have > v6 or not? > > If you do have it, native from the ISP, or are you running a > tunnel? > > If you don't hav

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Matt Minuti
23 AM, Chip Marshall wrote: > Just curious, but how many people have IPv6 access at home, > or are interested in getting it? Do you even care if you have > v6 or not? > > If you do have it, native from the ISP, or are you running a > tunnel? > > If you don't have it, w

IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Chip Marshall
Just curious, but how many people have IPv6 access at home, or are interested in getting it? Do you even care if you have v6 or not? If you do have it, native from the ISP, or are you running a tunnel? If you don't have it, would you be interested in learning how to set up a tunnel if you

Speakers for IPv6?

2012-10-13 Thread John Abreau
I'd like to schedule several BLU meetings about IPv6 for next year, and I'm looking for speakers who can give the kinds of presentations I think would be useful. We had a talk last November, but it fell short of what I had hoped for. I was looking for presentations where the target a

Boston Linux Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Rolling out IPv6 on Linux

2011-11-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: November 16, 2011 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Rolling out IPv6 on Linux Moderator: Chuck Anderson, Senior Network Engineer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325 Summary Configuring your Linux system for IPv6 Abstract An introduction to IPv6, ho

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Rolling out IPv6 on Linux

2011-11-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: November 16, 2011 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Rolling out IPv6 on Linux Moderator: Chuck Anderson, Senior Network Engineer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325 Summary Configuring your Linux system for IPv6 Abstract An introduction to IPv6, ho

Re: IPv6 deployment?

2010-04-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Chip Marshall wrote: > On 20-Apr-2010, John Abreau sent: > > Has anyone else deployed IPv6 yet? Is there a decent HOWTO that > > shows how to deploy it for a network of CentOS servers? > > > I attended a meeting of NNEUUG in 1993 tha

Re: IPv6 deployment?

2010-04-20 Thread Shawn O'Shea
If you want to configure static IPv6 addresses in CentOS, it's pretty easy. You set UPV6_NETWORKING=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network and assign an address in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXX file. See this page for some more details http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-redhat-fedora-c

Re: IPv6 deployment?

2010-04-20 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Coincidentally (or not?), Comcast notified me yesterday that I'd been accepted as part of their IPv6 beta rollout (to be deployed at a date TBD). Don't know if it's too late to try signing up -- I did so a month or two ago -- but I guess it never hurts to throw your hat into

Re: IPv6 deployment?

2010-04-20 Thread Chip Marshall
On 20-Apr-2010, John Abreau sent: > Has anyone else deployed IPv6 yet? Is there a decent HOWTO that > shows how to deploy it for a network of CentOS servers? > > Eventually I'll want to deploy it at home and at work, where > MacOS and Windows clients will presumably complicat

IPv6 deployment?

2010-04-20 Thread John Abreau
I'd like to begin deploying IPv6 on the BLU.ORG servers. They will need to transparently handle both IPv4 and IPv6, at least until some distant future time when IPv4 goes away. I suspect both will probably have to work in parallel for a while. Has anyone else deployed IPv6 yet? Is there a d

Re: DHCP, domain names, private LANs (was: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?)

2007-04-02 Thread Dan Jenkins
Ben Scott wrote: DHCP servers can provide a parent domain and/or a hostname. I know Comcast hands out a domain name; I dunno about the hostname. Some networks do hand out both. What the DHCP client does with those is up to the client implementation. Comcast also hands out a hostname compris

DHCP, domain names, private LANs (was: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?)

2007-04-02 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/2/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 'search localdomain' doesn't look right to me. What is acting as your DHCP server? > > I think that's just the default domainname you get. The firewall should > be handling the name service (he said it had two IPs for that). Strange. I r

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-02 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 10:19 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > "David A. Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 20:06 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > > > >> The 'search localdomain' doesn't look right to me. What is acting as > >> your DHCP server? > > > > I think that's just the de

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-02 Thread Paul Lussier
"David A. Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 20:06 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > >> The 'search localdomain' doesn't look right to me. What is acting as >> your DHCP server? > > I think that's just the default domainname you get. The firewall should > be handling the name s

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
Ben Scott wrote: On 4/1/07, Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: host liberty.gnhlug.org anywhere between 22-56ms. host doesn't seem to generate stats like ping. You can use "time host", if needed, but for this, we're generally interested in time scales which humans can easily judge.

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
Ben Scott wrote: On 4/1/07, David A. Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would also do an "/sbin/ifconfig" on your ethernet interface (probably eth0). Check for non-zero and growing counts in the errors, dropped, and overruns fields. While the system is idle repeat the ifconfig separated by 30 s

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/1/07, Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: host liberty.gnhlug.org anywhere between 22-56ms. host doesn't seem to generate stats like ping. You can use "time host", if needed, but for this, we're generally interested in time scales which humans can easily judge. Like, "this takes t

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
ll broken... I did get it to work for a while though - I actually had OTA HD recording going... No audio yet, and my streamzap remote is not being interpreted. The subject of other emails... I do know that my router does not like to pass through IPv6 info, so I am suspecting something l

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/1/07, David A. Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would also do an "/sbin/ifconfig" on your ethernet interface (probably eth0). Check for non-zero and growing counts in the errors, dropped, and overruns fields. While the system is idle repeat the ifconfig separated by 30 seconds and see if

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/1/07, Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You might want to look at netstat -an ... Wow! that was a ton of data! Yah, by default, that shows a lot of local inter-process connections, too. Try these variants: netstat -nt# show active TCP sockets netstat -ntl

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread David A. Long
the errors, dropped, and overruns fields. While the system is idle repeat the ifconfig separated by 30 seconds and see if the RX or TX packet counts are growing by large numbers. > > I did find a bunch of stuff when I googled "fc6 disable IPV6". Like > > unresponsive inte

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/1/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script nameserver 192.168.1.1 search localdomain Interesting, mine looks like this: A lot of SOHO routers run a DNS proxy, so you can just configure your systems to use 192.168.1.1 as the resolver, and the route

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/1/07, Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a result of the mythfest install, my computer was setup with FC6. I might argue that should be "In spite of the mythfest install...". ;-) I do know that my router does not like to pass through IPv6 info, so I am susp

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
netstat -an and check what open connections you have as well... Wow! that was a ton of data! I don't know how to interpret the list. There are a lot of open connections. I can't tell if it is doing much I did find a bunch of stuff when I googled "fc6 disable IPV6". Like

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Paul Lussier
n't know quite why I mentioned top, perhaps I was thinking that if something was using all your bandwidth it would also be in the list of the things showing up in top. You might want to look at netstat -an and check what open connections you have as well... > I did find a bunch of stuff w

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
Paul Lussier wrote: Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:48:34 -0400 From: Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> outside world are excruciatingly slow. (Connection to google takes minutes, other computers on the same network, seconds.) I do know that my router does not like to pass through IPv

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Paul Lussier
> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:48:34 -0400 > From: Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> outside world are excruciatingly slow. (Connection to google takes >> minutes, other computers on the same network, seconds.) I do know that >> my router does not like t

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread aluminumsulfate
network, seconds.) I do know that > my router does not like to pass through IPv6 info, so I am suspecting > something like this. > > Are there some tools I can use to determine what is actually happening? > Firewall or traffic analysis? If someone could show some sort usage it

IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
outer does not like to pass through IPv6 info, so I am suspecting something like this. Are there some tools I can use to determine what is actually happening? Firewall or traffic analysis? If someone could show some sort usage it would be greatly appreciated.