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<h2>About World IPv6 Day</h2>
<p>While Internet Protocol version 6 is in fact more than 15 years old,
World IPv6 Day, a 24 hour test flight day on <b>8 June 2011</b> has
motivated a lot of different organizations to get ready for IPv6, or
improve their already existent IPv6 support. Major content providers
will enable IPv6 for their websites that day, network operators and
hosting companies have been working to provide IPv6 to their customers
and operating system vendors like &os; have been improving IPv6 support.
You can find more information about World IPv6 Day on The Internet
Society's web page
<a href="http://www.worldipv6day.org/">www.worldipv6day.org</a>.
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<h2>You and &os; on World IPv6 Day</h2>
<p>What is special about that day for &os; you might wonder? Indeed,
with the help of the community, &os; has been serving releases on IPv6
since 2003. We have our major infrastructure like
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">www.freebsd.org</a> IPv6 enabled since
<a href="&base;/news/2007/index.html#event200782:0">2007</a>. &os; itself
has been supporting IPv6 since the 4.0 Release for over a decade now,
using the <a href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME</a> based reference
implementation.
</p>
<p>Nonetheless there are things we can do during that day:</p>
<ul>
<li>help promoting IPv6.<br/>
During the day there might be a lot more IPv6 users suddenly, and
some people are expecting significantly more traffic. A lot of
&os; servers are out there actively using IPv6, some people have put
&os; into their networking products, but only few tell us. We would
love to hear about your &os; IPv6 experiences on World IPv6 Day.
</li>
<li>help you in case of problems.<br/>
Obviously if you will run into problems you might want help immediately
for the one day test flight. We will more closely monitor the
<a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net">
&os; networking mailing list</a>, as well as being around on IRC in
#freebsd-w6d on EFNet to answer your questions. In case you will file
an IPv6 related <a href="&base;/support/bugreports.html">bug
report</a>, you may want to tag it with <small><tt>[ip6]</tt></small>.
</li>
<li>working on improving your IPv6 experience.<br/>
As we get your questions and feedback we will take notes to further
improve IPv6 support in &os;. There might not be an immediate change
but rest assured that your feedback will not be lost.
</li>
</ul>
<p>Join us for World IPv6 Day, spread the word, to help improving IPv6
support in &os; even further!</p>
<h2>FAQ</h2>
<h3>What is this IPv6 thing?</h3>
<p>Please see the
<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html">
chapter on IPv6</a> in the &os;
<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</a>
for an explanation.
</p>
<h3>Do you provide IPv6 connectivity?</h3>
<p>&os; is an operating system, not an Internet Service Provider.
There are multiple ways to connect to an IPv6 network with &os;
however:
</p>
<ul>
<li>direct configuration on an (Ethernet) interface,</li>
<li>ppp and IPV6CP by user space ppp or some ports, and</li>
<li>various tunnel brokers we support out of base or ports</li>
</ul>
<p>to just name a few.<br/>
Please see the
<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html">
chapter on IPv6</a> in the &os;
<a href ="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</a>
for more information.
</p>
<h3>I have problems getting IPv6 to work on FreeBSD. Can you help?</h3>
<p>Most likely. If our documentation did not help you, contact us. See
the previous section on how to best do that during World IPv6 Day.
</p>
<h3>Why is IPv6 not enabled by default?</h3>
<p>IPv6 has a mandatory link-local address.
In times where many people are are also using FreeBSD on their mobile
computers and joining random networks the services they started would
be accessible by other people on the same network. This may also happen
if they only started the services for IPv4 and are not aware of IPv6 at
all, do not have tcp-wrappers or a firewall in place. To not put people
at risk, IPv6 is disabled by default on FreeBSD.<br/>
However we already provide support for you to configure it from our
installer and it will automatically start to work as soon as you
configure an interface for stateless address auto-configuration (SLAAC)
or with a static IPv6 address as it has been available in all default
configurations we have been shipping since 4.0 Release.
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<h3>Do you have a desktop version as well?</h3>
<p>&os; comes with a huge collections of <a href="&base;/ports/">ports</a>
that allow you to install a graphical user interface and window manager
of choice. &os; however does not ship with a graphical desktop
preconfigured. Other &os; derived projects like
<a href="http://www.pcbsd.org/">PC-BSD</a> however do an excellent
job there.
</p>
<h3>I have reported a problem but it is not fixed yet.</h3>
<p>We are sorry that this is the case. If you have submitted a
<a href="&base;/support/bugreports.html">bug report</a> it is not lost.
&os; is developed and maintained by a
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-committers.html">
large team of individuals</a> and there might have been other things we
worked on to improve &os;.
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