From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 17:29:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E2537B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA41036; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:29:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3A5FAF69.2035756B@nisser.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:29:13 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Indra Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 network... References: <20010112155519.C34647@naver.co.id> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Indra wrote: > > Dear all... > > I don't have any knowledge of IPv6 at all. I am just wondering... Say if I > wanna build a network for my LAN. What do I need to make full IPv6 network? > What kind of switches? What kind of router? > How can my IPv6 network interact with the rest of the world who are still > using IPv4. > > Is there any relevant URL explaining this kind of questions? > > Thank you... Sure there are: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html http://www.6bone.net/ http://www.apnic.net/drafts/ipv6/ipv6-policy-280599.html I was looking at IP6 some ago, but stopped when I couldn't get the range I'd requested due to 'company policy' at SurfNET. I was a bit miffed. Will resume normal operation in a while . Anyway, you do not really need special IP6 equipment thought it wouldn't hurt. If they would like for IP6 to have more than a snowballs chance in hell (Catholic verion, not the Nordic one which actually is/was a rather nice place) then IP6 had better run with legacy equipment. There is a special address range which can be used to wrap IP4 addresses in. For this to really work you'll also need a gateway that will do the unwrapping and porting for you. 6Bone is your friend. There's also a rather good mailing list of which I unsubscribed in my miffed mood ;). Roelof PS what I requested was nothing special. In IPv6 there's the possibility to dole out 64K blocks of addresses. I asked for but one such block. No dice. We weren't a formally recognized (preferably non-profit) research facility. That we'd been recognized as such by the same Dutch government that pays SurfNET's bills was not a valid argument. Ah well. Governmental institutions, what can I say? PPS anyone can obtain a single IP6 address that's not a problem -- Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ Beveiligingsverwijzingen -- http://Nisser.com/links.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message