Don't try and give your client machines IP addresses -- make use of the stateless address auto-configuration and just set up zebra or radvd on your gateway. See Simple IPv6 HOWTO for a quick introduction.

Linux

Make sure IPv6 is either compiled into the Kernel, or compile it as a module and load it by way of modprobe ipv6.

For debugging, you'll want to install traceroute6 and ping6; on Debian, apt-get install iputils-tracepath iputils-ping.

A cheap way of installing IPv6 under Linux is to grab a 6to4 script, put it in your /etc/init.d directory, and set it to run on boot. That's it, you're done. (See 6to4 for a more involved explaination as to what this script does.)

If you want a statically assigned address, you'll probably need to use a tunnel broker.

• http://www.freenet6.net is one of the most common tunnel providers, For Debian, issue apt-get install freenet6
• http://broker.aarnet.net.au in Australia and maybe in NewZealand too
• http://tunnelbroker.ipv6.net.au or http://broker.ipv6.co.nz (a local tunnel broker being tested at the moment).
• Hurricane Electric was recommended by Andy Linton during his talk on the APE-WIX IPv6 testbed.

Windows XP

Start up a command prompt and type ipv6 install

Windows 2000

The following page may be of some assistance: Microsoft IPv6 Technology Preview for Windows 2000

FreeBSD

GENERIC supports it by default, but otherwise compile support into your kernel with the following options

options         INET6
device          gif                     # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device          faith                   # for IPv6 and IPv4 translation
device          stf                     # 6to4 IPv6 over IPv4 encapsulation

Cisco

See IFM's configuration wizard

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