Bug#545564: cannot create ipip6 tunnel: cannot guess tunnel mode although mode is specified

[martin f krafft]

Package: iproute
Version: 20090324-1
Severity: normal

% sudo ip tun a siptun mode ipip6 remote 2001:1620:2018:2::4d6d:8b56
Cannot guess tunnel mode.

More info on request, I could not imagine what else you'd want. Same
problem in lenny btw.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iproute depends on:
ii  libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.7  4.7.25-7   Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [

Versions of packages iproute recommends:
ii  libatm1   2.4.1-17.2 shared library for ATM (Asynchrono

Versions of packages iproute suggests:
pn  iproute-doc   none (no description available)

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Bug#545564: cannot create ipip6 tunnel: cannot guess tunnel mode although mode is specified

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Martin!

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 08:57:48AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
 % sudo ip tun a siptun mode ipip6 remote 2001:1620:2018:2::4d6d:8b56
 Cannot guess tunnel mode.

Start with modprobe ip6_tunnel and then run the above command including -6
should hopefully solve your problem. Would be nice if the kernel auto module
loader took care of the modprobe and ip tun was smarter w.r.t. -4 / -6
based on given mode though

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Regards,
Andreas Henriksson


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