{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-06T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/ipv6-connectivity-changing-brokers\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:01:43","slug":"ipv6-connectivity-changing-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/ipv6-connectivity-changing-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv6 connectivity &#8211; changing brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly 2 years since I intially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/19\/router-rebuild-or-an-excuse-to-play-with-ipv6\/\">set up my IPv6 connectivity<\/a>, and back then I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/bt-exact-ipv6-tunnel-broker-is-back\/\">had some problems<\/a> with the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker. Now it seems that without much notice the service has been taken down permanently, so I&#8217;ve just spent quite a few hours moving over to a new provider &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixxs.net\/\">SixXS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My initial impression of SixXS is that it&#8217;s much more polished than the BT service was. They have many PoPs (although a tunnel is only associated with one nearby PoP), a decent website, and all the facilities that I need. They work on a credit based system which means to use a facility you need credits. You get some credits when you set up an account, and you gain more by running a reliable tunnel. It&#8217;s an interesting idea&#8230; it encourages you to look after your setup.<\/p>\n<p>Handily I got some bonus credits for my work on some Open Source projects, so I got both my home network and my colo server setup in one go. The\u00c2\u00a0process was as good as identical to the BT service, so there were no real problems &#8211; just the tediousness of updating configs, DNS entries and firewalls.<\/p>\n<p>So there we have it &#8211; SixXS++ \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly 2 years since I intially set up my IPv6 connectivity, and back then I had some problems with the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker. Now it seems that without much notice the service has been taken down permanently, so I&#8217;ve just spent quite a few hours moving over to a new provider &#8211; SixXS. My initial impression &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}