Agreed. I haven’t had a public IPv4 address in any place I’ve lived in the last several years. If I couldn’t configure IPv6, I wouldn’t be able to connect to any computer on my home internet connection from the outside world at all.
When I first started with Linux, circa 2000, I spent a lot of time with
the books and howtos from TLDP, like this one. They were great. This
brings back some really fond memories.
I used this guide to connect my AMD Athlon 750 to my dialup ISP over PPP in 1999 or so. It doesn’t look like it has seen many updates since then.
This is interesting for historical reading but the networking tools in today’s Linux distributions are much different.
The two biggest omissions I think are using
ifconfiginstead of the newipstuff, and the total lack of IPv6.Agreed. I haven’t had a public IPv4 address in any place I’ve lived in the last several years. If I couldn’t configure IPv6, I wouldn’t be able to connect to any computer on my home internet connection from the outside world at all.
How are you connecting to the <arbitrary_percentage> of IPv4-only hosts on the Internet? Does your ISP have a v6-to-v4 translation thing going on?
I have a v4 address behind a NAT.
When I first started with Linux, circa 2000, I spent a lot of time with the books and howtos from TLDP, like this one. They were great. This brings back some really fond memories.