On 15/05/11 11:28, Ross Drummond wrote: > I finally succeeded in getting a 6to4 tunnel set up on one of my Linux > boxes. > > You do not need an IPv6 address allocated by your ISP as you can set up an > IPv6 address based on your external IPv4 address. > > I had no success setting up the tunnel until I used the configurator on > this web site; > > http://6to4.version6.net/?lang=en_GB > > My Linux box was on a LAN behind NAT on an ADSL router. The tunnel worked > despite a warning on the site that the tunnel would not work on a LAN. > > I used the sit0 configuration example on the page as my distribution > creates this interface by default. > > This web site will confirm if you are connecting via IPv6; > > http://whatismyv6.com/ > > Well what's out there in IPv6 land? Not much and whats there is often > doesn't work. > > Ping6 is useful to test connectivity and dig to see if an IPv6 address is > available. For dig; > > dig AAAA $url > > If your browser will not load an IPv6 site, placing the IPv6 address is > the address bar enclosed by square brackets sometimes will. > > Cheers Ross Drummond >
How well does that configuration score on the ipv6 test? http://test-ipv6.com/ I'm finding programs ( eg firefox, thunderbird, ssh ) doing dns lookups for both v4 & v6 addresses, and preferring the v6 address if it exists. Col. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
