After reading Planet Debian for the first time in months, I found a great article about IPv6. I was interested in that for a while now, but never took the time to do anything with it. My provider isn’t doing anything with IPv6, so I was under the impression that I could not do anything with it. Now I know I was wrong about that.

Basically I went to SixXs and requested a tunnel. This tunnel wraps all your ipv6 packets in normal ipv4 packets and sends it to the other end of the tunnel where it gets unwrapped and thrown over the internet as usual. The SixXs site provides software for a lot of distro’s which makes that tunnel so you do not have to make any difficult settings or what ever. It is a breeze with that software. The openSUSE package is pretty good, but the init.rd start part failed for me, but that was a detail.

After that I was able to enjoy browsing based on ipv6, for the sites that support it (ipv6.google.com seems faster to me than the normal site, but that’s probably my mind wanting that to be the case). There is also a free IPv6 news server for everyone. My irc-connections are also ipv6 based now. There is a Cool IPv6 Stuff-page, that kept me busy for a few hours.

In short: IPv6 is available for you too. It is the future, so get it now so you can tell your children that you already had IPv6 in 2008 (by then, they will not know it already existed 10 years or so).

To improve my kde.startpagina.nl I would like to provide a list with the best links to documentation/FAQ’s/HowTo’s/etc on the Internet. Stuff you wondered about, googled for it and found it after searching hours. The unique tip you received on a forum, or the best page with hidden config settings.

Things like a quick howto about installing flash in Konqueror, mp3 support in Amarok, hints and tips about IPv6 and KDE, support for using your ancient proxy server protocol, interesting articles about how to use kio in a split screen Dolphin between a gopher session and a fish session on the other side. You name it. Everything is ok, as long as it deals with KDE and user orientated. So please, go through your bookmarks and mail me anything interesting.

Leave a comment or email me your best links at tomalbers@kde.nl.