Switches and IPv6

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Brad De Vries <devriesbj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:59 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> <... stuff snipped ...>
>>
>> Personally, having been using IPv6 for years now (thanx to Linux'
>> native IPv6 implementation -- see my SxS from 2006 on the subject), I
>> like having more addresses available in my house than the entire IPv4
>> has on the Internet.  And since I have a /48, I can assign every
>> customer several /64's.  I have less than 1% of my assigned address
>> space routed.  And w/ OpenVPN IPv6 tunnel broker, those old crap
>> routers that can't handle IPv6 (principally consumer-grade garbage), I
>> just jump over those silly obsolete systems and tunnel an IPv6 block
>> inside.
>>
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>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> David A. Bandel
>> --
>> Focus on the dream, not the competition.
>>            - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto
>
> David, I'm sorry I can't help you with the POE switch issue but I'm
> hoping you can help us by telling us where the IPv6 SxS is located.  I
> found this:
>
>    http://linux-sxs.org/networking/ipv6_for_beginners.html
>
> in the "Latest Submissions" section on the home page.  However, when I
> click on it, I get:
>
>    Forbidden
>    You don't have permission to access /networking/ipv6_for_beginners.html
>    on this server.
>
> I'm guessing that's not what you wanted to present.

Well, I've submitted several things to the SxS editors and they seem
to fallen into a black hole.

>From an ipv4 address, try this:
https://tole.pananix.com/ipv6.html
>From an ipv6 address:
http://tole.pananix.com/ipv6.html

Let me know if they're not accessible and I'll make sure they are on
one of my other servers (instead of my home system).

You can use showip in firefox and see if your browser is accessing an
ipv4 address (red) or an ipv6 address (green).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
            - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto