Yesterday, I talked about some of the work I did in the weekend server overhaul. One of those tasks I wanted to talk about a little more was the addition of native IPv6 because I feel very strongly that IPv6 is important, not just to this blog, but to the future of the internet. I’m [...]
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IPv6: Backwater hick to bleeding edge – in a weekend?!
So last week, I didn’t know a whole lot about IPv6 (backwater hick – slow and behind the times). After spending a long weekend delving into the world of it, I find out that I’m basically on the bleeding edge already… and that makes me sad. How can I go from not even having used [...]
Two new sites: Where’s Gibson & IPv6 Wiki
So the Snowulf Network of websites has grown by two over the last week. Normally, I try not to add too many sites to my belt as it tends to make for a lot of administration. In these particular cases I have to make an exception. Let me explain briefly why I brought these two [...]
IPv6: Getting functional DHCPv6 and Route Advertising together
If you’re not into IPv6, but you’re a networking person – you may want to avert you eyes. This next piece of information is going to cause you pain: DHCPv6 does not support/allow you to send default gateway. This is “by design”. Does your brain hurt yet? I know mine did when I first found [...]
Getting underway with IPv6
So let me start off by saying, I’m not new to the world of networking. I’ve been doing this for a long while now. I had a Linux box running as a router on a PPPoE DSL line back before you could even buy a home “router” (IE Linksys). Heck, I had the network running [...]
