HOWTO: IPv6

[Martje_001]

Hello,
I needed to connect to a server, which was (is) only reachable with IPv6. So, this is how I did setup my IPv6 connection.

Step 1:
Download and install Freenet

wget http://go6.net/4105/file.asp?file_id=150 -O go6.tar.gz
mkdir go6
cd go6
tar zxf ../go6.tar.gz
rm ../go6.tar.gz
sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-openssl-dev openssl libcrypto++-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev build-essential
cd ./gw6c-messaging
make target=linux exportdir=../tspc-advanced export
cd ../gw6c-config
make target=linux exportdir=../tspc-advanced export
cd ../tspc-advanced
make target=linux all
sudo make target=linux installdir=/usr/local/gw6c install
cd ~
rm -r go6

Step 2:
Create config file

cd /usr/local/gw6c/bin
sudo rm gw6c.conf #If there are errors here, it's no problem.
sudo gedit gw6c.conf

Paste the following and save:

server=anon.freenet6.net
auth_method=anonymous
host_type=host
prefixlen=64
if_prefix=eth0
dns_server=208.67.222.222
gw6_dir=/usr/local/gw6c
auto_retry_connect=yes
retry_delay=30
keepalive=yes
keepalive_interval=30
tunnel_mode=v6anyv4
if_tunnel_v6v4=sit1
if_tunnel_v6udpv4=tun
if_tunnel_v4v6=sit0
client_v4=auto
client_v6=auto
template=linux
proxy_client=no
broker_list=tsp-broker-list.txt
last_server=tsp-last-server.txt
always_use_same_server=no
log_filename=gw6c.log
log_rotation=yes
log_rotation_size=32
syslog_facility=USER

Step 3:
Run Freenet

cd /usr/local/gw6c/bin
sudo ./gw6c

If you don't see any errors it should be fine. Wait a minute to give it start-up time and go to this page. If you see something like 'You are using IPv6', everything went fine!

[bhavi]

Sadly If IPV6 is enabled then my internet doesnt work here...

[Martje_001]

Can you ping normal sites?

ping google.com

[bhavi]

yes.. but download speed and system goes horribly slow...

[Martje_001]

What is your ISP?

[bhavi]

What is your ISP?

Its BSNL Broadband here in India... With an unlimited doenload plan..

http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone.htm

[dcstar]

Its BSNL Broadband here in India... With an unlimited doenload plan..

http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone.htm

Unless all of your network envorinment is IPv6 enabled (including your ISP), I doubt you will get any connection.

If you have it enabled in Ubuntu, and Ubuntu incorrectly thinks that IPv6 is available in your local environment, then that is why things slow down (time-outs waiting for IPv6 responses that can never happen).

[rabside]

hi Martje_001!
I've followed ur guide, but in the end when I type: ping newszilla6.xs4all.nl
i get
ping: unknown host newszilla6.xs4all.nl

isp is tiscali

[Martje_001]

Does this site says you're using IPv6?

[Martje_001]

And more important (since newszilla6 is a NNTP server) have you tried

telnet newszilla6.xs4all.nl 119

in a terminal?