Pekka Savola has announced an IPv6 project that he's working on that allows you to configure Red Hat to test and configure IPv6. "There are two "products", Linux IPv6 Router and IPv6 Workstation. The installation and the configuration of either is very easy and should not take longer than 1 hour, tops. The default installation is very secure. . . .
Pekka Savola has announced an IPv6 project that he's working on that allows you to configure Red Hat to test and configure IPv6. "There are two "products", Linux IPv6 Router and IPv6 Workstation. The installation and the configuration of either is very easy and should not take longer than 1 hour, tops. The default installation is very secure.

Adding a Linux Router box in your LAN enables native IPv6 connectivity on all hosts. Similarly, you can just install a regular Workstation which has IPv6 enabled.

Setting up IPv6 manually on all hosts from e.g. Freenet6 can be a rather time-consuming process, and not suited for connecting entire networks. More time- and cost-effective means must be made available. This is where this "productized" Linux router comes in handy. The same features can naturally be obtained from here and there too, but packaging it makes the whole process easier and faster.

The key feature is that current IPv4 network topology need not be changed. You just add a Linux box to the network (or modify a current one) to act as IPv6 router; it will not route IPv4 traffic. It connects to other IPv6 hosts using a static or 6to4 tunnel(s) using existing IPv4 topology.

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