IPv6 day fun is beginning!

Ryan Pavely paradox at nac.net
Wed Jun 8 19:41:18 UTC 2011


Are you really on Cook Island in the Pacific or is your email headers 
date timezone string set incorrectly -1000.  Your message won't be read 
by me until tonight shortly after 12:19 am.  Sadly you'll miss IPv6 day :(




   Ryan Pavely
    Net Access Corporation
    http://www.nac.net/


On 6/9/2011 12:19 AM, Paul Graydon wrote:
> I've done the same at home, HE tunnel for IPv6.  I've got a Linksys 
> WRT54GL running DD-WRT so getting it set up was relatively straight 
> forward though I really need to fix the automatic startup script 
> that's misbehaving.
> Work was another matter, one big headache, to the point where I'm 
> wondering if something is interfering.  OpenBSD box running pf acts as 
> a router for us, HE tunnel comes up easily and works fine from box. 
> rtadvd starts advertising the network range and every machine in the 
> office picked it up.  Briefly those workstations running Windows 7 in 
> the office were able to use the tunnel (5 mins give or take).  From 
> then on I could see outbound and inbound IPv6 traffic on the BSD box, 
> but it never seemed to reach the workstations.  Tearing down, 
> reconfiguring, checking out every guide under the sun, nothing worked 
> :)  Gave up in the end, I'll tackle it later when I've got time to waste.
> Would be nice if my $isp would sort out an IPv6 address range for us 
> to use properly.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 6/8/2011 1:40 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote:
>> Thanks to HE's tunnel broker service, I've got fully functional dual
>> stack at home (well, mostly, like most folks, VZ gives me a single
>> address and I live behind that with NATv4, but otherwise, I loves me
>> some FiOS) and yesterday went by for me without a hitch, including
>> accessing Facebook (I'd hear from the wife and kid really quickly if
>> they weren't working).  For a working tunnel, I put my DIR-825 as the
>> "DMZ" host behind the cheesy Actiontec router VZ requires, forward all
>> traffic with zero firewalling to it, and let the D-Link appliance handle
>> all my firewall needs (and it terminates my v6 tunnel obviously).  The
>> one thing I haven't quite figured out how to make it do (and maybe it's
>> just not capable) is use the /48 HE routes to me.  The box insists that
>> the internal interface be on the same subnet as the external, and it
>> hands out v6 addresses from that /64.
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared at puck.nether.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 7:15 PM
>> To: Iljitsch van Beijnum
>> Cc: NANOG list
>> Subject: Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!
>>
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>>
>>> www.facebook.com has AAAA but doesn't load for me over IPv6, it does
>> for others though
>>
>> If you go to www.v6.facebook.com it works, but it seems they have some
>> problem on their main site.  I am seeing some issues reaching them over
>> IPv6.
>>
>> - Jared
>>
>>
>>
>>




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