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This documentation was written by Bjoern Zeeb under sponsorship from
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the FreeBSD Foundation.
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$FreeBSD$
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD and World IPv6 Day">
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<head>
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<title>&title;</title>
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<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
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&catnav;
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<img src="IPv6-badge-blue-256-trans.png"
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alt="ISOC World IPv6 Day badge: blue"
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style="float:right; border-style:none; margin-left:30px;"/>
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<h2>About World IPv6 Day</h2>
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<p>While Internet Protocol version 6 is in fact more than 15 years old,
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World IPv6 Day, a 24 hour test flight day on <b>8 June 2011</b> has
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motivated a lot of different organizations to get ready for IPv6, or
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improve their already existent IPv6 support. Major content providers
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will enable IPv6 for their websites that day, network operators and
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hosting companies have been working to provide IPv6 to their customers
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and operating system vendors like &os; have been improving IPv6 support.
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You can find more information about World IPv6 Day on The Internet
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Society's web page
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<a href="http://www.worldipv6day.org/">www.worldipv6day.org</a>.
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</p>
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<h2>You and &os; on World IPv6 Day</h2>
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<p>What is special about that day for &os; you might wonder? Indeed,
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with the help of the community, &os; has been serving releases on IPv6
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since 2003. We have our major infrastructure like
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">www.freebsd.org</a> IPv6 enabled since
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<a href="&base;/news/2007/index.html#event200782:0">2007</a>. &os; itself
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has been supporting IPv6 since the 4.0 Release for over a decade now,
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using the <a href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME</a> based reference
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implementation.
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</p>
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<p>Nonetheless there are things we can do during that day:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>help promoting IPv6.<br/>
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During the day there might be a lot more IPv6 users suddenly, and
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some people are expecting significantly more traffic. A lot of
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&os; servers are out there actively using IPv6, some people have put
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&os; into their networking products, but only few tell us. We would
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love to hear about your &os; IPv6 experiences on World IPv6 Day.
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</li>
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<li>help you in case of problems.<br/>
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Obviously if you will run into problems you might want help immediately
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for the one day test flight. We will more closely monitor the
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<a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net">
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&os; networking mailing list</a>, as well as being around on IRC in
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#freebsd-w6d on EFNet to answer your questions. In case you will file
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an IPv6 related <a href="&base;/support/bugreports.html">bug
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report</a>, you may want to tag it with <small><tt>[ip6]</tt></small>.
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</li>
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<li>working on improving your IPv6 experience.<br/>
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As we get your questions and feedback we will take notes to further
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improve IPv6 support in &os;. There might not be an immediate change
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but rest assured that your feedback will not be lost.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Join us for World IPv6 Day, spread the word, to help improving IPv6
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support in &os; even further!</p>
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<h2>FAQ</h2>
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<h3>What is this IPv6 thing?</h3>
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<p>Please see the
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<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html">
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chapter on IPv6</a> in the &os;
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<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</a>
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for an explanation.
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</p>
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<h3>Do you provide IPv6 connectivity?</h3>
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<p>&os; is an operating system, not an Internet Service Provider.
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There are multiple ways to connect to an IPv6 network with &os;
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however:
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<ul>
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<li>direct configuration on an (Ethernet) interface,</li>
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<li>ppp and IPV6CP by user space ppp or some ports, and</li>
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<li>various tunnel brokers we support out of base or ports</li>
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</ul>
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<p>to just name a few.<br/>
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Please see the
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<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html">
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chapter on IPv6</a> in the &os;
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<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</a>
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for more information.
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</p>
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<h3>I have problems getting IPv6 to work on FreeBSD. Can you help?</h3>
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<p>Most likely. If our documentation did not help you, contact us. See
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the previous section on how to best do that during World IPv6 Day.
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</p>
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<h3>Why is IPv6 not enabled by default?</h3>
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<p>IPv6 has a mandatory link-local address.
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In times where many people are are also using FreeBSD on their mobile
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computers and joining random networks the services they started would
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be accessible by other people on the same network. This may also happen
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if they only started the services for IPv4 and are not aware of IPv6 at
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all, do not have tcp-wrappers or a firewall in place. To not put people
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at risk, IPv6 is disabled by default on FreeBSD.<br/>
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However we already provide support for you to configure it from our
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installer and it will automatically start to work as soon as you
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configure an interface for stateless address auto-configuration (SLAAC)
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or with a static IPv6 address as it has been available in all default
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configurations we have been shipping since 4.0 Release.
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</p>
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<h3>Do you have a desktop version as well?</h3>
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<p>&os; comes with a huge collections of <a href="&base;/ports/">ports</a>
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that allow you to install a graphical user interface and window manager
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of choice. &os; however does not ship with a graphical desktop
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preconfigured. Other &os; derived projects like
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<a href="http://www.pcbsd.org/">PC-BSD</a> however do an excellent
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job there.
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</p>
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<h3>I have reported a problem but it is not fixed yet.</h3>
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<p>We are sorry that this is the case. If you have submitted a
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<a href="&base;/support/bugreports.html">bug report</a> it is not lost.
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&os; is developed and maintained by a
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<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-committers.html">
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large team of individuals</a> and there might have been other things we
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worked on to improve &os;.
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</p>
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