IPv6 Support

[nemesis]

I notice the "2010 - Year in Review" announcements notes:

* Entire network upgraded to support IPv6

Does this mean we'll be seeing native IPv6 soon on VPS?

[ross]

Hi Nemesis,

Network is now ready to go, so we are definitely on our way. Still no final e.t.a but we will be sure to alert our VPS Customers when are are able to offer IPv6.

[dd32]

A few months on, Any updates here? (Also, commenting so i get the email notification when it is available if the thread is updated before..)

Need to start implementing some extra IPv6 compatibility & testing into WordPress shortly, and having a live personal installation would greatly help here.

Thanks in advance for an updates, I do appreciate that it's not something that can just be flicked on at a request.

[jasoncodes]

Quoting yesterday's blog post:

We should have IPv6 support across our VPS/Cloud range within a few weeks providing all customers with a /64 allocation

I have been waiting many months for an Aussie VPS with proper support for native IPv6. Such support includes a /64 allocation with reverse DNS delegation.

Clearly I am not the only one looking forward to this.

[dd32]

Originally Posted by jasoncodes

Quoting yesterday's blog post

Hah, Thanks for that I guess I should migrade my RSS list to my new PC about now!

[ross]

Hi Everyone,

We are still waiting on some Vendors to get up to speed with their support, we have our Network ready, we have our allocation ready.

Once all area's fully suppot IPv6 we will be letting everyone know.

I do not have a specific E.T.A as of yet.

Thanks for your patience in regards to this matter.

[djzort]

it seems that there is now ipv6 support?

[picnic pete]

I have tested some IPv6 on crucial VPS, using both a tunnel from Hurricane Electric, and a "world IPv6 day promotional" address direct from crucial. I have them running with Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 respectively.

Unfortunately those Ubuntu versions have old kernels which do not properly support the firewall. We need a newer version of Ubuntu to run IPv6 properly. I note from another thread that Crucial would like to support newer kernels, but has no ETA.

The part that is broken is the RELATED, ESTABLISHED part of the firewall. You can google kernel 2.6.18 ipv6 and read about it.

There are some workarounds you can do to get some functions running. My site is running with only ICMP and port 80 open for INPUT. That pretty much means that my server cannot originate a connection to another. (eg, it cannot do apt-get via IPV6, cannot send mail via IPv6, etc)

It does serve web pages OK, which is a good start.

For sys admins and VPS owners, there is a little bit more work involved in IPv6 than just switching it on. Mainly because we have to run the dual stack for a few years, and so all our utilities and configuration files and little scripts we wrote one wet weekend have to be dual stack.

Let's get cracking!
-Picnic Pete

[djzort]

with kvm we could run proper kernels and these problems wouldnt exist =)

[klightspeed]

Originally Posted by djzort

with kvm we could run proper kernels and these problems wouldnt exist =)

PyGrub, which is the default option when virt-install (yum install virt-manager) is used to create a Xen VM under CentOS 5, and PV-Grub, which comes with Xen 3.3+, are both able to load a paravirt kernel and a ramdisk/initramfs from the VM filesystem.

Unfortunately, unless I'm missing an option, it would appear that HyperVM locks everyone to one kernel per host, which would mean that to enable PV-Grub, they would need to inject the working kernel and grub config into all of the VM templates and into all of the VM root disks.