When I first started my journey to learn IPv6, I could not get native IPv6 at home from my residential ISP. Undeterred, I went to Hurricane Electric; HE offers both an IPv6 certification program that's a great place to start to learning how IPv6 works, and free IPv6 tunnels. I …
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Troubleshooting with ping6
At work today, I helped someone use
ping6to figure out what to fix on a server that wasn't reachable over IPv6. I have a pretty basic formula that I thought I would share.I will use this information for the problem host:
nethope@fixme$ ip -6 address show 1 …IPv6: The first step
I often hear comments like "Where do I start on IPv6?"; I have two answers.
Anyone can turn on IPv6 at home, and then go through the free IPv6 Certification at Hurricane Electric (HE). First, find out if your ISP offers native IPv6. If you can get native IPv6, make …
Reasons to use IPv6
As Vint Cerf said, "We need to stop running the experimental version of the Internet [IPv4], and move to the production version of the Internet running IPv6!" Do you need more reasons to use IPv6?
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Addresses everywhere for everything, without scarcity
The number of Internet-connected devices is growing, and has …
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What's Wrong with NAT
What's wrong with NAT?
NAT is often proposed as a supposedly-viable alternative to IPv6 deployment. NAT was an attempt to mitigate IPv4 address depletion, to give us time to migrate to IPv6, but not to replace IPv6. As the number of devices connected to the Internet grows, the Internet needs …
Learn (or Review) IPv6 Troubleshooting!
If you missed my first LinuxFest talk on IPv6 Troubleshooting, you have a second chance! I will be speaking on Saturday at Ohio LinuxFest 2013 too. I think the LinuxFests want me to get out of the office to meet the community, and I'm really looking forward to it!
Learn IPv6 Troubleshooting!
Someone around here tried to convince me to go to Southeast Linux Fest 2013. Without thinking about the consequences, I replied truthfully. I said I much prefer to go to conferences when I'm speaking. Other attendees, after learning some of my strengths, ask me questions, so I'm involved in more …
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