{"id":909,"date":"2011-06-05T20:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2019-04-04T02:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:01:46","slug":"ipv6-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/06\/05\/ipv6-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv6 Fun at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he.net\">HE.net<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunnelbroker.net\">TunnelBroker<\/a> service to ensure the various sites\/services I host \u00c2\u00a0are available via IPv6. \u00c2\u00a0 When we moved up to San Francisco, I decided to finally setup our home network with its own tunnel as well. \u00c2\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\">SCALE&#8217;s<\/a> services hosted over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actusa.net\">ActUSA<\/a> have long IPv6 enabled since 2009~). \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Currently we tunnel traffic using our trusty\u00c2\u00a0old Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT through HE.net, routes are advertised to the local network using RADVD.<\/p>\n<p>So far things have worked\u00c2\u00a0surprisingly\u00c2\u00a0well, with a few exceptions for older devices. \u00c2\u00a0 Here is a quick review of what we have working, and what is still in progress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ipv6.he.net\/certification\/scoresheet.php?pass_name=fonznet\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ipv6.he.net\/certification\/create_badge.php?pass_name=fonznet&amp;badge=2\" alt=\"IPv6 Certification Badge for Ilan Rabinovitch\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Devices supporting IPv6:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCisco-WRT54G-Cisco-Linksys-Wireless-G-Router%2Fdp%2FB00007KDVI&amp;tag=fonznet-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Linksys WRT54G<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=fonznet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> w\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwrt.org\">OpenWRT<\/a> <\/em><br \/>\nRequired some futzing with modules and configuration but work if you follow instructions. \u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a bit surprised ipv6 kernel modules are not load out of the box on current builds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGoogle-Nexus-One-Unlocked-Phone%2Fdp%2FB00332YPHQ&amp;tag=fonznet-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Nexus One<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=fonznet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Android 2.3.x)<br \/>\nWorks out of the box on wifi, pickups route advertisement and passes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.test-ipv6.com\">test-ipv6.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Maru&#8217;s iPhone 3GS<br \/>\nHad to upgrade to latest iOS release (4.2.3) as it was running\u00c2\u00a0ancient\u00c2\u00a0jail-broken 3.1 build. \u00c2\u00a0It looks like you need to be running at least iOS 4.x for \u00c2\u00a0IPv6 support. \u00c2\u00a0The anyone part is I cannot seem to find is a GUI that allows you to display the IPv6 address. \u00c2\u00a0The usual dialogs only display an IPv4 address. \u00c2\u00a0Accessing a test site though, I&#8217;m able to see what the address is and confirm traffic routes as expected.<\/li>\n<li>Operating Systems<br \/>\nCentos 5.5, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and OSX all seemed to work out of the box. No configuration was required, \u00c2\u00a0as soon as I turned the systems on they had an IPv6 address.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002ONCBXU\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fonznet-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B002ONCBXU\">Brother HL-3040CN Color Laser Printer<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002ONCBXU&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nNetwork color laser printer. \u00c2\u00a0No issues with IPv6 so far. \u00c2\u00a0It is not enabled by default, you need to login via the web interface and check a box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Devices not yet\u00c2\u00a0working with IPv6:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0038KN114\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fonznet-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B0038KN114\">Panasonic DMP-BD65 Blu-Ray Player<\/a> &#8211;<br \/>\nDo any Blu-ay devices support IPv6 yet? \u00c2\u00a0(\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Update: <\/strong>Panasonic has indicated none of their current Blu-Ray players support ipv6.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voip-info.org\/wiki\/view\/Linksys+WIP300\">Linksys WIP 300<\/a> SIP phone.<br \/>\nI believe it runs a\u00c2\u00a0uCLinux for its operating system, but \u00c2\u00a0Linksys stopped providing OS \/ firmware updates long ago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0045F8QDE\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fonznet-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B0045F8QDE\">Nintendo Wii<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=fonznet-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0045F8QDE&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nNo dice so far. I \u00c2\u00a0did send an email inquiry to technical support who implied it was possible and asked me to call in for details. \u00c2\u00a0Phone support seemed unable help unless I could provide an error code, which I cannot since one is not displayed. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0There are a number of misinformed forum posts claiming the Wii will use IPv6 out of the box, but this does not appear to be true. \u00c2\u00a0Further research indicates its DNS resolver will attempt to lookup AAAA records before querying for A records, but the Wii itself will not pickup a v6 address. \u00c2\u00a0 If someone knows of a way to make this work drop me a line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Helpful IPv6 Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunnelbroker.net\">TunnelBroker.net<\/a> &#8211; \u00c2\u00a0Hurricane Electric provides free IPv6 tunneling in case your own ISP does not do so natively just yet (very consumer ISPs in the United States do at the moment).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.test-ipv6.com\">Test-IPv6.com<\/a> &#8211; A series of tests to confirm IPv6 and IPv4 are working properly for your host. \u00c2\u00a0Other similar sites are: \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatismyipv6.com\">WhatIsMyIPv6.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actusa.net\/ipv6-testpage\">ActUSA&#8217;s IPv6 Test Page<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ip6.nl\">ip6.nl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ipv6.he.net\/certification\/\">IPv6\u00c2\u00a0Certification<\/a> &#8211; A series of tasks and tests to help you learn the ropes with regards to IPv6.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixxs.net\/wiki\/Configuring_Your_OS\">SiXXS &#8211; Configuring Your OS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using HE.net&#8216;s TunnelBroker service to ensure the various sites\/services I host \u00c2\u00a0are available via IPv6. \u00c2\u00a0 When we moved up to San Francisco, I decided to finally setup our home network with its own tunnel as well. \u00c2\u00a0(SCALE&#8217;s services hosted over at ActUSA have long IPv6 enabled since 2009~). \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Currently we tunnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}