Re: [Hampshire] Anyone know much about IPv6 tunnels?

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Author: Jonathan Hudson
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Anyone know much about IPv6 tunnels?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:55:54 +0000
Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:

> Hi Vic,
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 08:10:02PM -0000, Vic wrote:
> > > You can run "aiccu test" and it might show you where the problem is.
> >
> > Not when you know as little about IPv6 as I do, you can't :-)
>
> Just run it. It's pretty verbose. Running it is part of the
> troubleshooting steps when reporting a problem to sixxs anyway.
>
> > > Can you ping it?
> >
> > I can't ping the PoP - but the unreachable message when I ping Google
> > seems to come from the PoP. At this point, I have to recognise the limit
> > of my knowledge in this area...
>
> ping6 should definitely work.
>
> Have you firewalled it? Don't forget that the tunnel comes through
> IPv4 so you'll need to allow it through your IPv4 firewall.
>


In particular, allow in IP proto-41 (6in4), that had me stumped for a
while.

-jh