Setting up an IPv6 tunnel (was: Re: static IP & DHCP problems on LAN)

[Colin Law]

On 12 March 2013 13:39, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 11:53 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 12 March 2013 11:31, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> > Set up an IPv6 tunnel on your home server, set up another one on your
>> > laptop, and it will be as if NAT had never existed. Don't forget to put
>> > appropriate filters on the tunnel interfaces. Some tunnel providers even
>> > put the tunnel endpoint address in the DNS for you - all of them give
>> > you the same addresses every time, so you can put it in your own DNS or
>> > just in your /etc/hosts file.
>>
>> Do you have a link to a guide on how to do this?  Google showed a
>> number of hits but none I saw addressed exactly how to do this.
>
> Do you mean how to set up a tunnel, or how to edit /etc/hosts?
>
> Assuming the first,

A correct assumption :)

> [snip lots of good stuff]

OK, got it, thanks.  I had seen how to set up tunnels using gogoc but
I had missed the fact that, having setup tunnels on the home server
and on the remote machine that it then just works.  I was thinking I
somehow had to link the two tunnels together.

Many thanks, and apologies for not starting a new thread myself, which
I should have done.

Cheers

Colin