In July, I wrote about how I managed to get onto the IPv6 internet by tunneling through Teredo. However, I’m now trying something different.
We have a WRT-54G at home which runs DD-WRT. Today, I remembered that it has IPv6 support in the form of 6to4, an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunneling system that is more transparent than Teredo. By following DD-WRT’s IPv6 tutorial, I’ve managed to get our home network transparently connected to the IPv6 internet now.
All our Ubuntu machines are magically connected to the IPv6 internet, and to get our Windows XP ones working, all I had to do is add the IPv6 protocol in the network properties dialog and it works. One website that I use for testing to see if I’m properly on the IPv6 internet is remlab.net. Rémi has a little message on his sidebar that tells you if you’re using IPv6 or not.
When configuring the router, I was told by the tutorial to use the anycast IP address 192.88.99.1 for doing the IPv6 tunneling. However, judging by the pingtime and slowness of the connection, the machine that 192.88.99.1 is pointing to seems to be located somewhere like Germany, which made things quite slow. Luckily, thanks to a list of public IPv6 relays, I have found that AARNET have a relay I can use at 6to4.ipv6.aarnet.net.au (open only to Australians), which resolves to 192.231.212.5 at the time of writing.
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