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Re:The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173 by IgorPartola on Monday February 11, 2013 @10:53PM (#5205107)
Miredo/teredo is yuck indeed. ATIYA is not bad, I am not sure why you turn your nose to it. Practically it just adds 8 bytes to the headers compared to 6in4 yet is a lot easier to set up. Specifically, if you do not have a router that you control and that can do IPv6 and ip6tables, AYIYA is the easiest to set up and have a static address. I would not set it up for a server but for a small LAN it will be no different than 6in4.
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Re:The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173 by dfc on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @12:18AM (#5205316)
I understand what you are saying, AYIYA is not as bad as miredo. But lets face it:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables = Any Linux Box

It is even easier with:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables + shorewall6 = Any Linux Box

Configuring the linux box is essentially as easy as appending the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

  ### IPv6

  auto he-ipv6

  iface he-ipv6 inet6 v4tunnel
        address  1234:987:1234:743::2
        netmask  64
        endpoint 209.51.161.14
        ttl      255
        gateway 1234:987:1234:743::1
        post-up sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
  
  
  iface eth1 inet6 static
        address 1234:567:8901:1::1
        netmask 64
Spend five minutes with /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf and you are done. Granted my mom is not going to do that but for anyone on HN that should be a walk in the park.
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