Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:08:42 -0400 From: resonant evil <air.lightz@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :( Message-ID: <1b62a73905092313082d48e984@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I'm a brand new poster to the forums, and consider myself a novice FreeBSD user.. I used to use an IPv6 tunnel broker that worked fine, and even had a great program in C to do all the configuring of my tunnel automatically, but sadly, they are sharing my /48 with like 4 other people making it impossible to log into IRC servers. So somebody on #FreeBSD @ irc.freenode.net<http://irc.freenode.net>reccomended 2 OTHER brokers for me, one was BTexaCT and another was Hurricane Electric (www.tunnelbroker.net <http://www.tunnelbroker.net>, which he advised me to use.) So I got my tunnel approved at both places, but am seriously at a dead end here and it has become very discouraging, to the point where I'm blaming myself because this should be so straight-forward :( Here are the full tunnel details I was approved for Server IPV4 Address: 64.71.128.83 <http://64.71.128.83>; Server IPV6 Address: 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD2/127 Client IPV4 Address: 70.28.MY.IP Client IPV6 Address: 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD3/127 in my /etc/rc.conf, I have ipv6_enable="YES" ipv6_gateway_enable="YES" The guide I was following was: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html Okay, so, the steps I follow are.. ifconfig gif0 create ifconfig gif0 tunnel 70.28.MY.IP 64.71.128.83 <http://64.71.128.83>; (my ip then their ipv4 ip) ifconfig gif0 inet6 alias 2001:470:1F01:FFFF::DD3 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 route add -inet6 default -interface gif0 Then, it should be ready according to the manual, but I can only resolve IPV6 addresses, I can't actually communicate with any. ping6 'ing ipv6 addresses resolves to the proper address, but no packets are received irc'ing an ipv6 server just resolves the IPV6 address but doesn't actually get past the CONNECTING stage As I said, I'm getting really discouraged and downright depressed, and I don't know what further action to take to pursue this problem, so hopefully people here can get me up and running.. This really shouldn't be a difficult thing to do.. Also, as a side note, I also took the exact same steps with the OTHER broker I was approved for (BTexaCT) but its the same thing, I can only resolve IPV6 IP's, not communicate with them What should I do!! Thanks in advance, everyone :) -Ryan, a new FBSD user :)
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