Tag Archives: ipv6

Debug IPv6 issues on OpenWrt

Posted by on July 24, 2015 3 comments
IPv6 logo

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My new provider IPv6 connectivity, however after connecting my OpenWrt based WNDR4300 (using Chaos Calmer 15.05-rc3) things unfortunately did not “just work”… This post summarize some hints how to debug IPv6 on OpenWrt.

First, make sure that the upstream (WAN) interface is configured according to the documentation in the OpenWrt Wiki. Using LuCI, you have to create a new interface (WAN6) which should c

If your ISP provides IPv6 support, it should “just work” at this point. However, what to do if not? Read more »

IPv6 – The Basics

Posted by on October 21, 2011 No comments

Since about three weeks I’m using IPv6 on my client. Since then I’ve learned some basics, which I would like to share.

Some facts:

  • 128-Bit long
  • Written with hexadecimal characters
  • Written in 16-Bit blocks (8 blocks, maximal 4 hexadecimal characters each)
  • Blocks separated using colons (:)
  • Double colon (::) means omitted blocks (replaced with 0)
  • Networks are using CIDR-Notiation for the network mask (e.g. /48)
As loopback address there is one address reserved, the very first (means all bits 0 except the last one):
::1

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IPv6 with OpenWRT and SixXS (Part 2)

Posted by on October 12, 2011 No comments
SixXS Logo

SixXS Logo

A week later and my account had enough credits to request the subnet. I got a /48 network, or in otherwords, I have a network with 80 bits which I can use! This are more address then the whole IPv4 address space has! 😎

When you have the approval for the subnet SixXS did allready a lot of work for you: They sent you the actual address, and they make sure that this subnet is routed to your router address. So you only need to assign the addresses to your devices. Read more »

IPv6 with OpenWRT and SixXS

Posted by on September 28, 2011 No comments
WNDR3700v2 Package

WNDR3700v2 Package

Lately I wanted to try using IPv6. The first part I needed was an IPv6 capable router. Since I was always interested running Linux on my router I picked one which is ready to run OpenWRT on it. Netgear WNDR3700 seems to match my needs: Pretty common in the OpenWRT community, 16 MiB flash (4 MiB is the absolute minimum, 8 MiB should be fine for IPv6 use. More flash, more space to play with :-)). But take care: Lately Netgear made a new revision, v3, which is not compatible with OpenWRT, or at least no yet.

 

My provider says he is still working on implementing IPv6, he don’t know when it’s ready, but it should be in the next months… That’s way too long 🙂 So I decided using one of these tunneling solutions. Wikipedia has a list of tunnel brokers, I chose SixXS. After Signup you have to wait some hours until your account request is being processed. After the approval you get a username, password and 25 credits. These credits are needed to get a tunnel and your own subnet, for each of them you need 15 credits, which makes 30 for both. The first thing you do is requesting a tunnel. Some hours later, you should get a tunnel approval with your Tunnel Id. You can earn 5 credits by operating the tunnel a week. So after you have a tunnel, one has to wait another week to request a subnet. For me it took about two hours to get the account and another two hours to get the tunnel, so they are pretty fast! Read more »