How to access IPV6 from IPV4

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I have been searching for a long time ipv4 to ipv6 proxy program but i nothing found… Currently i have IPv4 address however i would like to try IPv6 address. Is there a simple solution for IPV6 access from an IPV4 network?

I am running Windows XP and connected to the internet over a WIFI connection

I've tried TunnelBroker.net (I did not understand what to do), convert ipv4 to ipv6 software (joking?), gogoCLIENT – Basic Version and gogoCLIENT – Home Access Version none of which is working for me.

If possible I'd like a simple solution – I'm not an engineer and would prefer something not too complicated.

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Well, there's IPV6 tunnels and proxies. You're talking about a tunnel in this case I believe.

If you want to access IPv6 resources as a client, I believe installing Teredo should do the trick, somewhat slowly - netsh interface ipv6 install installs IPV6 support and netsh interface ipv6 set teredo client installs teredo

Setting up IPV6 tunnels is a pain unless its a single computer connected directly to the net, or your router can connect to a tunnel broker.

The only options thats worked on my specific setup is the gogo6 client with the udpv6 option, and its worked perfectly behind a lan with no other configuration for me. Gogo went defunct and their webpage has a domain squatter so it won't work any more.

As for tunnel broker - I notice you've tried this but without knowing the specific errors and messages its hard to say what is going on.

If its 'simply' to access ipv6 websites there might be 6 to 4 proxies - sixxs had a web proxy available, but they shut down services in 2017

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An IPv6 tunnel broker is a service that provides you with IPv6 connectivity on networks where you only have IPv4. As IPv4 addresses are very scarce these days it is unlikely that someone will let you use an IPv4 address for free. Your best bet is to rent a (virtual) server somewhere that has both IPv4 and IPv6 and then use tools like haproxy to forward incoming connections over IPv4 to your machine over IPv6.

Such workarounds are necessary until every network properly supports IPv6. A lot of people have been pushing ISPs and enterprises for many many years to deploy IPv6 so that workarounds like this wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately a lot of networks still don't have IPv6 which is why it is now difficult for those of us who don't have IPv4 addresses anymore to keep things reachable.

Once most networks support IPv6 you can just use IPv6 everywhere. Until then: keep making it clear to network operators that only offer IPv4 how much trouble they are causing and encourage them to deploy IPv6.

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Yes, if your webserver has only IPv6 and the visitor has only IPv4 then they will not be able to communicate. You'd need a translator that has access to both IPv4 and IPv6 somewhere.

There are roughly two ways to translate:

Reverse proxy
SIIT-DC

Facebook uses SIIT-DC in their server farms. They use IPv6 internally and use SIIT-DC to translate their incoming IPv4 traffic to IPv6. I don't know of any providers that offer such a service for home use though.

What you could do is to rent a virtual private server with both IPv4 and IPv6 somewhere and set up a reverse proxy on it. Then visitors can contact the server over IPv4, and the server can contact your webserver over IPv6. I have done this in the past with Apache, Nginx and haproxy. The configuration is not too difficult, but you do need to have a server that you can run it on...

I wrote an article on options for making IPv4 content accessible over IPv6. What you need is basically the reverse: making IPv6 content accessible over IPv4. The concept is the same though.

A simple haproxy config:

listen webserver1
    bind 192.0.2.1:80
    mode tcp
    server webserver1 2001:db8:abc:123::cafe:80

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