Time Capsule/Airport Express IPv6 working

[gvdl]

The magic translation is:-

From Airport Utility, choose the Advanced->IPv6
Select IPv6 Mode: Tunnel
Configure IPv6: Manually

On Sonic's labs->IPv6 tunnel page

Note Transport and Network IPv6 numbers given when you view/request an IPv6 tunnel.

Remote IPv4 Address is 'sonic-side v4 address' from example configuration page, in my case it is 208.201.234.221.
WAN IPv6 Address is 'Transport::' including the /127
IPv6 Default Route is 'Transport::' again + 1 so if it was ...::1140/127, then replace end with just '1141'
LAN IPv6 Address is 'Network::'

Test link using

ping6 -c 4 ipv6.google.com

[bobrk]

Cool, thanks for checking that out. I may try it myself.

Other then being cutting edge, are there any over advantages to using the IPV6 tunnel? Performance?

Thanks,
Bob

[dane]

Thanks for sharing your working config details, that's very helpful.

-Dane

[brainsik]

Thank you for posting this. It's working great.

[ankh]

How about for Macs without Airport/Time Capsule?
I've got a Linksys BEFSR41 router, and a Fusion fixed IP here.
I'm missing something that should be obvious to me here, I suspect.

Mac OSX 10.7.2
I have the Network control panel Advanced settings, where I can choose "Configure IPv6"
-- Automatic does nothing.
-- Manually offers me blanks to fill in labeled "Router" and "IPv6 Address" and "Prefix Length"
I need eight hexadecimal numbers separated by colons in the first two slots.

Sonic's Tunneling request page https://members.sonic.net/connections/ipv6tunnel/#
gives me
-- Transport (eight hex numbers separated by colons)
-- Network (a different eight hex numbers separated by colons)
-- Current Tunnel Endpoint (my Sonic fixed IP goes here, I gather)
-- Master DNS Server (can be left blank, instructions say)

Do I take the Transport and Network numbers Sonic offers and put them into a setting on the Mac? Or on the Linksys router?

[ankh]

PS -- I found this:
http://ipv6int.net/systems/mac_os_x-ipv ... tunnelling

It might fill in the OSX info missing from the help -- but I'm not clear enough to go fiddling with this.

It says in part:

Mac OS X supports configured tunnels with the gif tunnel-interface. Setting up a manual tunnel requires several steps on the command line.

Beforehand, you need the following information:

[what answers for sonic.net users?
[do Sonic's "Transport" and "Network" numbers answer some of these?]

$host-ipv4
IPv4-address of the host
$router-ipv4
IPv4-address of the router/tunnel-server
$tunnel-v6host
(Tunnel) IPv6-address of the host
$tunnel-v6router
(Tunnel) IPv6-address of the router

Set up the IPv4 endpoints of the tunnel:
ifconfig gif0 tunnel $host-ipv4 $router-ipv4

Set up the IPv6 endpoints of the tunnel:
ifconfig gif0 inet6 alias $tunnel-v6host $tunnel-v6router prefixlen 128

Set the (IPv6) default route on the tunnel:
route add -inet6 default -interface gif0
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[bobrk]

Do I take the Transport and Network numbers Sonic offers and put them into a setting on the Mac? Or on the Linksys router?

As I understand it, what Sonic is supplying is addresses for a tunnel to other IPV6 addresses on the internet. They are not giving you anything for your internal network. Therefore, you would be applying the IPV6 info to your router.

Whether this works or not depends on whether your router supports IPV6.

[ankh]

I don't mind buying a router if I need to -- but it's not clear yet.

Linksys says:

'BEFSR41 IPv6 [Forums]
1. Your computer is able to use IPv6 without your router supporting it. If you set up IPv6 on your computer you can set up tunneling for IPv6 in IPv4.2......"

http://homesupport.cisco.com/?pagename= ... fsr41+ipv6

If I do buy another router, I'd rather buy one known to work by other customers here
-- but as Sonic isn't supporting ipV6 yet I want to know how to set up the computer first.

And if Linksys is right, I don't need another router, I just need to get the settings right in OSX.

According to this
http://ipv6int.net/systems/

the OSX operating system supports IPv6 fine but isn't documented:

"Support for ... tunnels ... is more mixed, however. The state of documentation varies as well: quite good in the commercial systems (Unix, Cisco’s IOS and newer Windows) but almost non-existent in the various Linux and BSD-based (includes OS X) systems (which is quite sad since it does not mirror their IPv6 stacks’ quality)."

Here's a test link to find out -- according to Linksys -- if your setup works:

http://test-ipv6.com

So -- back to the question I asked -- can anyone match up the "Transport" and "Network" numbers provided by Sonic to the blanks I need to fill in for the Mac OS settings quoted above?

[bobrk]

Thank you for posting this. It's working great.

I managed to get mine set up as well, but I get IPV6 endpoint errors, and my Apple router is saying "Try again when the service is up."

[Sean]

Maybe the instructions above are not quite right. I had to flip the WAN IPv6 Address and the IPv6 Default Route.

1. Remote IPv4 Address: 208.201.234.221 = sonic-side v4 address
2. WAN IPv6 Address: Transport:: address +1 (add a 1 to the number before /127), include the /127
3. IPv6 Default Route: Transport:: address, include the /127
4. LAN IPv6 Address: Network:: address, include the /60 (or whatever you have)

Reboot and it should work!

I also got the free ipv4 static address set up, and put it in my router, and put it in the spot on sonic.net where it says: "Your current tunnel endpoint is:" I did the ipv4 before I got everything else set up. I don't know if that matters...