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title: Free IPv6 VPN for hackerspaces
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pub_date: 2019-11-08
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author: Nico Schottelius
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From today on ungleich offers free, encrypted IPv6 VPNs for hackerspaces
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## TL;DR

If you are a hackerspace and you want to hack/work/have fun with IPv6,
send an email to **ipv6hackerspace -at- ungleich.ch** with your
[public wireguard
key](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki/The_ungleich_VPN_infrastructure#Sample-clustomer-client-configuration)
plus a short description of your hackerspace and get an IPv6 VPN for free.

## The world belongs to geeks...

"...because nobody else wants it." was a slogan I've once read on a
mug. True or not, fact is that we geeks and hackers are the ones
who live in the Internet, create many of its backbone technologies and
always fight for a better version of it (with varying degree of
success...).


## How the Internet was supposed to be

The Internet was built to foster communication, research and exchange
of ideas. With the tranformation to a commercial driven network and
the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses we changed the way how we use the
Internet: instead of exchanging data directly with each other, we use
intermediate cloud services. Instead of being able to publish
information on any computer, we are hidden by multiple levels of NAT.

We have moved far away from the original idea of the Internet, it's
time to take back control.

## Using IPv6 to change the game, now

With IPv6 we geeks are back in the game, can launch services as we
like, be reachable under the same IPv6 address world wide, can even
carry around our networks and offer them as a service when we visit
other places.

The values of [team ungleich](https://ungleich.ch) are pretty much
aligned with the hacking community (in fact, we run a [Hacking
Hotel](https://hack.digitalglarus.ch/hacking-and-living-in-hotel-diesbach.html)
in [Digital Glarus](https://digitalglarus.ch/)). Our job at ungleich
is to **enable people to do stuff**, so we decided it is time to
enable (other) hackerspaces to join the movement.

## Why hackerspaces?

If you read hacking as in "creative use of technology", it is clear
that creativity should not be limited. To explore new ways of using
the Internet (maybe even [without
facebook?](https://code.ungleich.ch/nico/rif)), you need to be able to
experiment, to explore, to challenge. We love this groove and
want to support this, that's why we support hackerspaces.

## Why a (wireguard based) VPN?

We are aware that there are other tunnel providers and technologies out
there and that is a good thing. The reasons why we opted for a
[Wireguard VPN based solution](https://ipv6vpn.ch) are following:

* wireguard: it's very easy and slim and does not require IPv4 inside
  the tunnel ([which OpenVPN still
  does](https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/10/openvpn-vs-wireguard/)). Also
  it works on "almost any device" including Linux, BSD and niche OS
  like Windows, macos, iOS and Android.
* VPN: work with dynamic IPs, works behind CGNAT

(feel free to challenge this decision in a discussion on
[IPv6.chat](https://IPv6.chat))

## Getting IPv6 for a hackerspace

To get IPv6 for your hackerspace, simple write an email to
ipv6hackerspace -at- ungleich.ch with a short description of your
hackerspace and your public [wireguard](https://www.wireguard.com/)
key.

You can find more information on how to configure wireguard and how to
create the public key in the [ungleich redmine
wiki](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki/The_ungleich_VPN_infrastructure#Sample-clustomer-client-configuration).

## IPv6 chat

If you want to stay in touch with us and talk about IPv6 **IRC alike**,
you can join us on the [IPv6 chat](https://IPv6.chat).