After a few really boring months of only having IPv4 on my LAN it now may be a new period of joy and fun. Today I got my IPv6 subnet enabled from SixXS. The tunnel have been up for about two weeks and I have been playing with it now and then to make sure it works. I have even set up some ssh-sessions that run such programs like ‘who’ and ‘finger’ in a screen for the purpose of reading stability and so on. The setup seem to work nicely. Thus I present the following, a IPv6 traceroute, with working reverse and forwards. (The DNS may not be updated around the world yet.)

traceroute to 2001:16d8:26:: (2001:16d8:26::) from 2001:16d8:ff34:0:208:2ff:fe8f:ba57, 30 hops max, 16 byte packets
1 sixxs-gw.ov44a.nerdehaven.no (2001:16d8:ff34::) 0.648 ms 0.536 ms 0.366 ms
2 gw-95.sto-01.se.sixxs.net (2001:16d8:ff00:5e::1) 36.976 ms 41.673 ms 39.571 ms
3 2001:16d8:2::81 (2001:16d8:2::81) 37.27 ms 38.321 ms 37.253 ms
4 2001:16d8:26:: (2001:16d8:26::) 39.484 ms 38.078 ms 37.332 ms

There are some latency in the tunnel. Most of it comes from the fact that NextGenTel, my ISP, have never been able to provide a more robust physical connection after the former neighbors upstairs installed an ISDN-phone two years ago. They claim there is static interference on the network after their node, and that it may originate from within the house itself. I hardly doubt it. It’s probably just another ploy from those stupid people upstairs. "YAY, let’s install an ISDN-phone we don’t use, just to cause annoyance for the geek downstairs". Anyway, let’s not go down that road today. IPv6 is working and I can’t wait to get back home from work to do some real testing on it with a browser and all!