Dennis place in the void* : ipv6stuff section




Information regarding ipv6 that I've collected that I want to save for some reason or another, and configuring information that I've used to set up my linux system (Currently Xubuntu release Hardy), to enable me to surf the ipv6 networks.


My ipv6 setup.

I have set up my xubuntu to use the sixxs tunnels using the software aiccu (use Synaptic Packet Manager and search using the string "aiccu" without the quotes to install.). I have then used the following configuration stored in /etc/aiccu.conf: 

# Under control from debconf, please use 'dpkg-reconfigure aiccu' to reconfigure
protocol tic
server tic.sixxs.net
# AICCU Configuration

# Login information
username 
password 

# Protocol and server to use for setting up the tunnel (defaults: none)
#protocol 
#server 

# Interface names to use
# ipv6_interface is the name of the interface that will be used as a tunnel interface.
# On *BSD the ipv6_interface should be set to gifX (eg gif0) for proto-41 tunnels
# or tunX (eg tun0) for AYIYA tunnels.
ipv6_interface tun0

# The tunnel_id to use
# (only required when there are multiple tunnels in the list)
#tunnel_id Txxxx

# Be verbose?
verbose true

# Daemonize?
daemonize true

# Automatic Login and Tunnel activation?
automatic true

# Require TLS?
# When set to true, if TLS is not supported on the server
# the TIC transaction will fail.
# When set to false, it will try a starttls, when that is
# not supported it will continue.
# In any case if AICCU is build with TLS support it will
# try to do a 'starttls' to the TIC server to see if that
# is supported.
requiretls false

# Behind NAT (default: false)
# Notify the user that a NAT-kind network is detected
behindnat true

I have then used the following to start my aiccu daemon:

dennis@fc:$ sudo aiccu start /etc/aiccu.conf
INFO! I have noticed that the ipv6 connection lags quite a bit after a while, so I have set up a crontab job to stop and start the aiccu connection once a day. I try to keep my computer online almost all the time and I only know that it happend after a couple of days online. The restart has worked though. INFO!


Dennis: dennis (at) hack (dot) org
Last modified: Saturday 26 april 2008 - 21:31