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Revision as of 09:55, 20 August 2011

IPv6 Networking - External Network Connections
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Tunnel from IPv6 Tunnelbroker

SixXS

AICCU Package

If you use SixXS as your IPv6 tunnelbroker, you will probably want to install the aiccu.lrp Package, which provides AICCU, the Automatic IPv6 Connectivity Client Utility.

AICCU makes it easy for users to get IPv6 connectivity. After having requested an account, tunnel and optionally a subnet, AICCU can be used to automatically configure the tunnel. AICCU supports TIC (Tunnel Information & Control protocol), which it uses for retrieving the tunnel configuration information, AYIYA, which allows tunnels to be created even behind firewalls and NAT's.

The procedure to configure Bering-uClibc 4.x is as follows:

  • Make sure you have the tun kernel Module loaded. Note that this relies on the crc32 kernel Module, which should be automatically loaded in most setups anyway.
  • Configure Shorewall to accept the SixXS tunnel traffic. Add the following to /etc/shorewall/rules:
SixXS(ACCEPT)   fw      net
  • Install the aiccu.lrp Package and configure it using lrcfg.
    • Specify your own username and password.
    • Specify the relevant protocol and server. For example:
protocol tic
server tic.sixxs.net
  • Start the aiccu daemon:
svi aiccu start
  • Check for error messages in /var/log/syslog
  • If all is well, you should have a new network interface called "sixxs" which is effectively the IPv6 equivalent of your external IPv4 interface (e.g. eth0 or ppp0).
  • In the event of problems you may find the "test" mode of the "aiccu" command useful for diagnosis.

Workaround for Fast-Changing Public IPv4 Addresses

Although AICCU supports tunnels via non-static IPv4 addresses, we have found that tunnels via DSL-providers (like T-DSL connections in Germany), that change the IP address in an 24-hour-interval, do not work reliably. A workaround is to add the script below, named as 0aiccu, to /etc/ppp/ip-up-d. It restarts aiccu after ppp has re-established the pppoe connection.

#!/bin/sh
if pidof aiccu
       then /etc/init.d/aiccu stop
fi
while  pidof aiccu ; do
  sleep 15;                                                                 
  pidof aiccu;
done
/etc/init.d/aiccu start

IPv6 DNS Servers

Most IPv4 DNS servers will happily serve out IPv6 "AAAA" address records, so normally it is adequate to use IPv4 for DNS even when using IPv6 for other protocols. However, in case some sites only provide full IPv6 DNS services over IPv6 it can be useful to include some IPv6 DNS servers, usually alongside IPv4 DNS servers.

SixXS provide a recursive DNS cache service over IPv6 as detailed on the SixXS website.

Note: As per the warning on the SixXS site, the AICCU utility needs to resolve the IPv4 address of tic.sixxs.net at startup, which will not be possible if your only DNS servers are only accessible via the AICCU tunnel (unless you have a static, public IPv4 address and a static tunnel).

There are three separate DNS cache servers, one for each continent:

  • nscache.eu.sixxs.net - Europe
  • nscache.us.sixxs.net - United States
  • nscache.ap.sixxs.net - Asia Pacific

An entry for the IPv6 address(es) of the relevant local resolver (found using e.g. dig AAAA nscache.eu.sixxs.net can either be added directly to /etc/resolv.conf or, if you are using the dhcpcd Package, it can be added to /etc/resolv.conf.head so that it is included at the start of the automatically-generated /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf which is then typically referenced by the dnsmasq Package as described on the dnsmasq page. An example of suitable contents for /etc/resolv.conf.head for a system located in Europe might be:

nameserver 2001:14b8:0:3007::6
nameserver 2001:7b8:3:4f:202:b3ff:fe46:bec

Since the Bering-uClibc 4.0 release, file /etc/resolv.conf.head is backed up automatically when the configuration is saved so this no longer needs to be added to the "local" Package.


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