IPv6 - how do I get ready?

[Harry Strongburg]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:07:59PM +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:12 +0000, Harry Strongburg wrote:
> > The way that it will (hopefully) work would be: your router's firmware 
> > will be automatically updated to handle IPv6 (if possible), and that 
> > your computer will automatically get an IPv6 address through Router 
> > Advertisement. You shouldn't need to do much to set it up, once your ISP 
> > tells you that it's ready.
>
> Also found the warning that every IPv6 machine will need to be
> firewalled.

Eh, that's subjective. There's no NAT to "protect" the clients connected 
to your router on IPv6, but as long as you keep your system configured 
properly it should be fine. Simple ip6tables would work as well. If you 
look at netstat -nlp6, you can see what's listening, and change that 
program's setting, or ip6tables its port off.