On Jan 18, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Glenn Rempe wrote:
Can you look at the OS X guide I wrote up here:
http://www.tryv6.com/s/6to4#osx105
and let me know if you see any mistakes or areas we could improve?
That was a group effort here, until we got to the point that even
total novices weren't making mistakes setting it up.
-- Kevin
Your instructions for OS X are likely fine Kevin. However they seem
to be specific to connecting an individual machine to the net with a
6to4 tunnel. My alternate instructions are focused on those users
who have OS X machines behind an Apple Airport Extreme or Apple Time
Capsule router which takes care of setting up the tunnel for the
whole network of machines behind its NAT. Each machine behind the
device just has to set 'automatic' IPv6 and has no need for adding
an extra 6to4 interface manually as you suggest. Perhaps my
instructions are an extra case to add?
Also, in your text in the instructions website you say:
"Will 6to4 work for me?
6to4 works great for some, but simply won't work at all for others.
If any of the below are true, 6to4 will not work for you.
- If you're using a home/office router that lets you share your
connection between multiple computers, 6to4 will not work"
To my knowledge this generalization is NOT accurate for the Airport
Extreme/Time Capsule scenario which does DHCP/NAT for devices behind
it, as well as (optionally) allowing direct ingress/egress of IPv6
traffic over an automatic 6to4 tunnel.
One of the reasons I'm not mentioning the Airport Extreme Base Station
was because Apple shipped several faulty firmware revisions that
completely broke 6to4, and an apparently large percentage of devices
that shipped contained one of these bad versions. It looks like it
should be working, but doesn't. Making it worse, you might actually
have to do a factory reset on the base station to disable it
When I vaguely asked someone at Apple about this whole scenario, the
response was summed up as "If you know that they've updated to the
latest firmware, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend using it. If not,
there's a good chance they're going to end up with a broken config
that is not easy to fix."
I'm well aware that the AEBS is one of the major exceptions to the
statement above(I own one myself), but I'm trying very very hard not
to give people instructions that might break anything.
Does anyone have contradictory information/comments?
-- Kevin
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