eric’s extremeboredom

I got the Ubuntu Linux CDs that I ordered a month or two ago. If you would like one please let me know. The x86 CDs have both an install disc and a LiveCD, often very usefull for debugging problems.

In other, more exciting news, my network here is now fully IPv6-enabled. I am using custom firmware from Sveasoft on my WRT54G router and have a 6in4 tunnel with OCCAID, who also allocated an entire /48 block of IPs to me.

Many of you have wondered why you should concider using IPv6, so here are a few reasons:

• No more NAT! - With IPv6 there are so many millions of IP addresses you no longer need to bother with NAT. This means no more port forwarding and more more incompatable applications (SIP comes to mind).
• DHCP is optional - IPv6 supports what is called “stateless auto-configuration” where your router runs a very simple daemon (such as radvd) that just announces the “network prefix”. The IPv6 stack on your client receives this annoucement and automatically creates an IP address and configures routing using it.
• Mobile IP - I am yet to test this out myself, and it seems like the spec is still not completly final, but this could very well be one of the coolest features in IPv6 - the ability to keep your IP address regardless of the network you are physically connected to - think wifi. More information on this avaliable here.
• It’s cool! - You just KNOW you want to be able to tell all your friends you are using a newer version of the internet than they are :).

You can now access both filefind.net and extremeboredom.net using IPv6, and I even gave them seporate IP addresses since I don’t need NAT and created SSL certificates for each.

$ host -t aaaa extremeboredom.net
extremeboredom.net has AAAA address 2001:4830:2012::186

$ host -t aaaa filefind.net
filefind.net has AAAA address 2001:4830:2012::187