[TriLUG] Late night IPv6

[Igor Partola]

Bill,

I hope you also enabled the firewall to safeguard your home network.
Otherwise, bad things (tm) are bound to happen :).

Igor


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> What better time to install IPv6 than late at night at bar having a
> drink after a TriLUG meeting.  A big thanks to Kevin Otte for guiding
> me through this process, and thanks to Hurricane Electric [1] for
> their IPv6 tunnel broker service.
>
> All we needed was a laptop, free wifi thanks to Ba Da Wings, ssh
> tunnel back into home, ssh to the router, install some OpenWRT [2]
> packages (including kernel modules), and then reconfigure the router's
> networking without dropping the remote ssh connections. Sweet !
>
> ssh -L 8888:router:80 desktop.example.com
> ssh router
> opkg update
> opkg install 6in4 luci-proto-6x4 luci-app-radvd
> # configure router via ssh tunneled webpage on port 8888
>
>
> So now my home desktop *automagically* has an IPv6 address and can do
> IPv6 networking.  Can't wait to see if YouTube works better over IPv6
> than via TWC IPv4.
>
> ping6 www.google.com
>   PING www.google.com(gg-in-x93.1e100.net) 56 data bytes
>   64 bytes from gg-in-x93.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=36.8 ms
>   64 bytes from gg-in-x93.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=35.8 ms
>
>
> Bill
>