Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity

So, those mythical IPv6-only internet users actually exist :) That's some great network engineering.

I once needed something like that for the perhaps more common inverse purpose, to work on something IPv6 from within my happy IPv4-only connection. A more limited, but quicker solution given full control of a server - I set up a SOCKS5 proxy, using:

  ssh -D 1080 -N myserver

and set my browser to use it. I think that it could also be set system-wide, but wonder if that might break the original ssh connection, holding it all up :)