 Getting
on the 6bone Quickly with SolarisTM 8
David LaPorte and Kevin Amorin
For those who live on the cutting edge, implementing a new technology
is as much about the "how" as the "why". Gaining
experience with the technologies of tomorrow provides skills and
familiarity that will give you an advantage over the competition.
IPv6 is one such technology. In this article, we will describe some
of the benefits of IPv6, as well as provide a step-by-step method
to get a workstation on the 6bone, the IPv6 test bed. Although many
of the procedures described here can be used to set up a tunnel
with any IPv6 tunnel broker, we focus on Freenet6 (http://www.freenet6.net),
a free service provided by Viagénie Inc. As of this writing,
version 2 of their client software was unavailable for Solaris --
we will instead describe the process of getting a Solaris 8 system
online using version 1.
IPv6 Background
IPv6 is a next-generation protocol destined to replace (or co-exist
with) the current Internet standard, IPv4. IPv6 addresses several
of the problems that are apparent in IPv4.
Address Exhaustion
Over the past several years, the rapid pace of Internet expansion
has exposed some serious weaknesses in its underlying protocol,
IPv4. The most obvious weakness is the size of the address space.
When the specifications for IPv4 were drawn up, the size of an address
was set at 32 bits.
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