you can also use the 6to4 method which uses a generic encapsulation method and routes to the nearest 6to4 router via ipv4 anycast. Pipenetworks and a few other AU ISPs run these gateways. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4

it's also mostly trivial to set up in Linux, esp Debian based ones:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#IPv6_6to4_Configuration

Before I had native v6, this was my preferred method. Latency, reliability and setup is much better than userspace driven tunnels. It will give a static subnet if your v4 address is also static. However there is no mechanism for ip6.in-addr.arpa delegation. 

On 13/01/2013, at 7:54, Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:

At 12:22 AM 1/13/2013, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 01:59 +0000, James Harper
wrote: > Are there any other options for tunnels
these days? My ISP keeps > telling me that IPv6
is coming, but that's been the case for a while.
Vote with your wallet. Internode have had native
IPv6 for years now and it’s not going away any
time soon.
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I had a good look last night, and there's not a lot of options.

Gogo6 no longer has a Sydney PoP.  Aarnet's
tunnel broker is still running, but finding a
compatible client is tough these days (the
current gogoc does not work with it).  There is
an Australian provider (IPv6 Now), but you either
have to put up with a no frills free tunnel
(dynamic IPv6), or pay from $20/month (at least you get a SLA).

The practical options for those of us in .au seem to be:

1.  Internode (by far the best option, as you get
reliable native IPv6 and reverse DNS delegation).
2.  Aarnet (if you can find the right tspc version, no reverse DNS).
3.  IPV6 Now (free version has dynamic IPv6 and no rDNS delegation).
4.  SixXS (nearest PoP is in New Caledonia, which
doesn't have too severe latency).

Anything else has severe latency, due to distance
from PoPs.  It's a pity Hurricane Electric
(he.net) don't have a PoP in .au, as their tunnel
broker is rock solid.  I use them to provide IPv6
for a VPS in the US, and the latency over IPv6
from here is actually less than IPv4.


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