New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

resonant evil air.lightz at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 14:48:04 PDT 2005


Hi, thanks for the response, but alas it's still not working :(


On 9/24/05, aksis <aksis at idea-anvil.net> wrote:
>
> Im using Hurricane Electric as well,
> When you login to HE they have a link for an example config generation,
> this
> is what I used. I had some problems with the handbook as well.


Yeah, I was following their example configs also, I saw it there :(


My rc.conf:
> ... snip ...
> gif_interfaces="gif0 gif1" # IPv6 tunnel
> gifconfig_gif0="63.226.12.96 <http://63.226.12.96> 64.71.128.82<http://64.71.128.82>"
> # IPv4 tunnel for IPv6 tunnel
>
> ipv6_enable="YES" # Set to YES to set up for IPv6.
> ipv6_network_interfaces="rl0 gif0" # List of network interfaces.
> ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:470:1F00:FFFF::22E" # Set to IPv6 default gateway
> ipv6_ifconfig_rl0="2001:470:1F00:379::1" # assigned from my /64to a nic
> ipv6_ifconfig_gif0="2001:470:1F00:FFFF::22F 2001:470:1F00:FFFF::22E
> prefixlen
> 128" <--- wrapped, should be on the above line.
> ... snip ...


I was missing alot of that stuff, so I filled it in with the appropriate
values, here's what mine looks like (and upon reboot everything looked good)

...
ipv6_enable="YES"
ipv6_gateway_enable="YES"
gif_interfaces="gif0 gif1"
gifconfig_gif0="70.28.134.212 <http://70.28.134.212>
64.71.128.83<http://64.71.128.83>
"
ipv6_network_interfaces="rl0 gif0"
ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD2" # default ipv6 gateway
ipv6_ifconfig_gif0="2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD3 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD2
prefixlen 128"

is the ipv6 section of my /etc/rc.conf, on bootup everything seemed to take
effect properly


# ifconfig gif0
> gif0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
> tunnel inet 63.226.12.96 <http://63.226.12.96> --> 64.71.128.82<http://64.71.128.82>
> inet6 fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe2a:aa7c%gif0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
> inet6 2001:470:1f00:ffff::22f --> 2001:470:1f00:ffff::22e prefixlen 128


su-3.00# ifconfig gif0
gif0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
tunnel inet 70.28.134.212 <http://70.28.134.212> -->
64.71.128.83<http://64.71.128.83>
inet6 fe80::240:f4ff:fe2d:a9f7%gif0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet6 2001:470:1f01:ffff::dd3 --> 2001:470:1f01:ffff::dd2 prefixlen 128

which from what I can gather looks absolutely correct, doesn't it :(

Is your firewall blocking ipv6?
> # /etc/rc.firewall6 open


No such file on my system, I'm using 5.3-RELEASE
I don't think the firewall is blocking ipv6 because
www.hexago.com<http://www.hexago.com>(my old broker, freenet6) had a
great 'tspc' program (that was compiled from
C) that did all the work for me, and that tunnel still works great, except
its unstable for me and is completely blacklisted from most IRC networks


Don't leave this open after you get the tunnel working.
>
> > That goes off without any errors or anything, and then that guide tells
> me
> > to 'ping6 ff02::1%gif0' and it works perfectly, and I get ping replies,
> so
> > I get REALLY excited. Then, the guide tells me to finish by
>
> ping their ipv6 end point of the tunnel:
>
> # ping6 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD2 (you sure its /127 and not /128?)
>
> If you don't get replies then there is a problem with the tunnel.


su-3.00# ping6 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD2
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f01:ffff::dd3 --> 2001:470:1f01:ffff::dd2
^C
--- 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD2 ping6 statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss


I really appreciate the help thus far man :)
Any other suggestions or reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.. I
can also provide output from anything you might find useful, just let me
know :) I really would love to get this working, it would be a good
confidence boost for me if I could just figure this out

Thanks again :)

-Ryan


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