[geeks] IPv6

[der Mouse]

>> How are people doing with ipv6?  Anyone using it at home or work?
>> Will I have anyone to talk to if I set it up at home?

Well, there's me. :)  I've got a /56, I think it is, out of which I'm
using a /96 (and really don't need more than a /124 at the moment; in
using a /96 I'm being generous, allowing 64K addresses per machine and
far more machines than that v4 subnet can hold anyway).

Thanks to an incident a few years back (I spent six months behind a
v6-only uplink), almost all of my own tools are v6-ready, and they
prefer v6 given the choice, so routine traffic over my house LAN is
mostly v6.

> I'm interested in using it, but I was wondering if anyone knew how
> hard would it be to get a routable block?

My understanding is it borders on trivial, if you're willing to tunnel.
There are apparently a number of places that run such tunnels.  Someone
who orks cows has such a tunnel set up; if you like I can ask him whom
he's using for that.  (My own space was sub-assigned from my
connectivity upstream.)

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