[143038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Linux Server Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Proto)
Tue Jul 26 18:04:00 2011
In-Reply-To: <025101cc4bc9$50e77ec0$f2b67c40$@org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:03:30 -0400
From: Michael Proto <mike@jellydonut.org>
To: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> wrote:
> Hi there.
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> Has anyone compiled a list of pros/cons on various flavors of Linux speci=
fic
> to IPv6? =A0I realize that's =A0a really broad question..
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> Specific example would be that we're primarily a CentOS shop - during som=
e
> testing today found out that connection tracking is broken in 5.6 version
> (after all kinds of Google hits). =A0I understand 6.0 (recently released)
> fixes this issue. =A0I have not seen this issue in Debian for example to =
date.
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I've tested two Linux distributions in an IPv6 environment, Ubuntu
10.04 Server and CentOS 6. Granted I've only been testing services for
a few months now but I've found that both can deliver adequate service
delivery via IPv6. I did run into the connection tracking issue with
CentOS 5 and you are correct, it is fixed in 6 (its also integrated
into the ufw program so setting-up host-based rulesets are very easy
in an IPv6 world).
In my case, its mainly testing both platforms but I haven't discovered
any significant issues with either, and this is running basic services
(DNS, HTTP, SMTP, a few little python JSON servers) over a 6in4 tunnel
on each platform.
-Proto
