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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> Miredo takes care of that. You install it - if it's not already there >> - then you run it as root and you're IPv6 connected. > > Does it provide the endpoint as well, or do you still use tunnelbroker, etc. > for that? I'm still figuring out what's really going on, but it does all the work for you. You don't need to set anything. It obviously uses external Teredo/Miredo servers so I do wonder how well this would scale for the Internet. It is only designed - by someone at a large software vendor from Redmond - as a temporary measure to make the transition towards IPv6 easier. >> I sometimes want to login to my home PC from elsewhere. I used to have >> ssh forwarded on the router, now I've disabled that and use Miredo and >> IPv6. (The remote host runs Miredo as well.) It's not more secure in >> theory, in practise it's unlikely that anyone's going to find that >> IPv6 address and try logging into it. > > They might not find it at random, but when I initially enabled IPv6 on my > servers, I thought it'd be OK to wory about the firewall afterwards... > However it seems there are people out there probing IPv6 already - mostly > spammers from what I can tell, but I've had the odd ssh probe too - so get > up to speed on ipt6tables... > > Or just get a static IP address and be done with it :) Plenty of reasonably > priced ISPs out there. (I think!) Even plusnet do static IP addresses, I > think. Depends on your usage though - the smaller/niche ISPs tend to have > much lower caps though. I'm not too worried about ssh probes - they could have done it before and they'd still need the password. It just adds a little bit of security through obscurity. But the main reason I'm using it is because it seems cool. Also, I was writing a piece on IPv6 so I thought it'd be useful to actually be able to use IPv6 while doing so. :) Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq