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Don't forget you can always use IPv6 as there are gates to 6th internet over 4th internet.

After all the words Inter Net mean this technology can work over and between any network, be it Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Token Ring or whatever. And of course it can work over IP of another version.

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It seems "VPN" is what people are calling the service now, getting good IP service over a bad last mile ISP.

One particular mechanism is 6to4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4. It works through anycast address 192.88.99.1, so you don't need any provider-specific setup or subscription.

This mechanism is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7526.txt

What's the best way to set up and use such an ipv6 gateway? After a bit of fiddling, I managed to set something up with sshuttle, but it was a bit of a hack.

Google fo IPv6 tunnel brokers -often free services. I don't know which of them is better, may depend on where you are located.

he.net provides a good one that we used for many years before getting real IPv6 space though our ISP. https://tunnelbroker.net/

Some feedback: we have been successfully using HE for years at our office, because of a lousy ISP that keeps on piling up ridiculous excuses. Latest one was that we couldn't get IPv6 because we had a "special" IPv4 block.

Also used SixXS but the aiccu+AYIYA/6in4 requirement isn't ideal when you have some network gear that supports 6to4 tunnelling natively.

As this is Hacker News - Anyone seen any good tutorials on how to set this up without a 3rd party broker?

Lets say I have an IPv6 on/availableTo a server - how do I go about handing out those IPs to my local clients and all the routing/setup inbetween

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