Ubuntu Desktop IPv4 and IPv6 question

[NoOp]

On 08/05/2008 03:52 PM, Anthony Watters wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Windows Vista has a dual IPv4 and IPv6 stack arrangement and some
> ISPs in Australia such as Internode also now run IPv6 on their
> networks (as a dual IP stack arrangement, so for the time being both
> IPv4 and IPv6 are catered for). However, routers, other than Cisco,
> don't yet support IPv6 as far as I can tell.
> 
> Presumably one wouldn't want both IPv4 and IPv6 going over the
> Internet from the Ubuntu Desktop box at the same time. Also, it would
> seem that if one wants to use IPv6 with an ISP that one would have to
> rip out the IPv4 based router and connect the Ubuntu Desktop box
> directly to the cable modem?
> 
> With IPv6 I wouldn't particularly want to use DHCP. Is there a way in
> Ubuntu Desktop of setting a fixed, i.e. static, IP address, e.g.
> equivalent of something akin to 192.168.0.3 but in IPv6, assuming
> that I can find a router that will support IPv6 and so do the NAT
> thing? Or will router manufacturers go to the wall with the rise of
> IPv6 because people will have to connect all their computers directly
> to the Internet in an IPv6 enabled world?
> 
> Finally, I gather that one of the selling points of IPv6 is better
> security than IPv4 due to built-in encryption? Does anyone have to do
> anything to enable that and are their performance implications?
> 
> Sorry, this message turned out to be longer than I thought it would
> be.

These might be of interest:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/
http://www.linuxhq.com/IPv6/