Linux

make sure ipv6 is either compiled into the Kernel, or modprobe ipv6
For debugging, you'll want to (Debian) apt-get install iputils-tracepath and iputils-ping

If you want a statically assigned address, you'll probably want a freenet6 tunnel. You can get a tunnel from http://www.freenet6.net or (in Australia, maybe in NewZealand too if there are no local ones there) http://broker.aarnet.net.au.

The tunnel broker recommended by Andy Linton during his talk on the APE-WIX IPv6 testbed was Hurricane Electric.

For Debian, do apt-get install freenet6

Windows XP

start up a command prompt and type

ipv6 install

Windows 2K

The following URL may be of some assistance

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/readme.asp

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

Specifically, don't try and give your client machines IP addresses. use zebra or radvd on your gateway.

fec0:0:0:ffff::{1,2,3} are reserved to be aliased onto name servers. Thus client machines can set their dns servers to these addresses and just use DNS. See http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-dns-discovery-07.txt This draft has expired.

Cheap way of installing IPv6 under linux is to grab http://www.linux.it/md/6to4 and put it in your /etc/init.d directory and set it to run on boot. You're done.

See 6to4 for a more involved explaination as to what this script does.

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