Setting up an IPv6 tunnel (was: Re: static IP & DHCP problems on LAN)

[Colin Law]

On 12 March 2013 13:54, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 12 March 2013 13:39, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 11:53 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 12 March 2013 11:31, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>>> > Set up an IPv6 tunnel on your home server, set up another one on your
>>> > laptop, and it will be as if NAT had never existed. Don't forget to put
>>> > appropriate filters on the tunnel interfaces. Some tunnel providers even
>>> > put the tunnel endpoint address in the DNS for you - all of them give
>>> > you the same addresses every time, so you can put it in your own DNS or
>>> > just in your /etc/hosts file.
>>>
>>> Do you have a link to a guide on how to do this?  Google showed a
>>> number of hits but none I saw addressed exactly how to do this.
>>
>> Do you mean how to set up a tunnel, or how to edit /etc/hosts?
>>
>> Assuming the first,
>
> A correct assumption :)
>
>> [snip lots of good stuff]
>
> OK, got it, thanks.  I had seen how to set up tunnels using gogoc but
> I had missed the fact that, having setup tunnels on the home server
> and on the remote machine that it then just works.  I was thinking I
> somehow had to link the two tunnels together.

Once I have the tunnels up and running that copes with access to the
server from outside the LAN.  When I am back home, however, and the
laptop is connected into the LAN then obviously I do not want to go
out to the tunnel provider and back again in order to ssh to the
server (I presume that is how the tunnelling works).  Currently that
is the second reason that I have fixed ip addresses, in order to ease
communication between the devices on the LAN.  Can ipv6 help me here?

I don't think my router does ipv6, it is a Netgear DG834Gv4

Colin