[Wylug-discuss] ipv4/6 broker and adsl supplier

Thu Apr 19 12:32:29 BST 2007

Good point I created the tunnel "though web front end" whilst on a
UKERNA IP range then setup my endpoint at home.

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Leach
Sent: 19 April 2007 12:18
To: WYLUG
Subject: RE: [Wylug-discuss] ipv4/6 broker and adsl supplier

If I go to the UKERNA broker signup page from a non-academic IP address,
it tells me to get lost, so I guess they aren't.

"The user registration service is only available from within a UK Higher
Education establishment"

John.

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:41 +0100, Kevin Barrass wrote:
> 
> I cant find anything anywere showing if tunnels are allowed of Janet 
> IP range but it may well be that they don't, am using the BT one 
> instead now and it works very well it has a good tool to show you 
> stats of tunnel interface at BT end.
> 
> Kev
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Jackson [mailto:jj at franjam.org.uk]
> Sent: 18 April 2007 19:35
> To: Kevin Barrass
> Cc: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [Wylug-discuss] ipv4/6 broker and adsl supplier
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Kevin Barrass wrote:
> 
> >
> > Ignore that the BT one is working now, just not the UKERNA one. Now 
> > to
> 
> > figure out what I can do with the IPv6 address ;0)
> 
> UKERNA may only allow tunnels from JANET IP addresses?
> 
> Jim
> 
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Kev
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk
> > [mailto:wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kevin 
> > Barrass
> > Sent: 18 April 2007 13:33
> > To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
> > Subject: RE: [Wylug-discuss] ipv4/6 broker and adsl supplier
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've tried both the BT and UKERNA tunnel broker to my Cisco router 
> > at home using a /128 for testing and I cant get either working. 
> > Using the
> 
> > BT stats page for the tunnel I can see my traffic hitting there 
> > tunnel
> 
> > interface but not the other way around as below shows.
> >
> > Does anyone know if Orange Broadband blocks this traffic as far as I

> > know its IP protocol 41.
> >
> > The access list on my dialer/ADSL interface is allowing IP PROTO 41 
> > from
> > 213.121.24.85 so am damn sure its not my router that's the problem 
> > possibly the crud from me to the Tunnel Broker ;0)
> >
> > Any feedback appreciated.
> >
> > Kev
> >
> >
> > ################ from BT ##################
> >
> > Here are the statistics provided by the router for this tunnel...
> >
> >
> >   show int tun 72544
> > Tunnel72544 is up, line protocol is up
> >   Hardware is Tunnel
> >   Description: To *.*.*.*
> >   MTU 1514 bytes, BW 9 Kbit, DLY 500000 usec,
> >      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
> >   Encapsulation TUNNEL, loopback not set
> >   Keepalive not set
> >   Tunnel source 213.121.24.85 (GigabitEthernet0/1), destination
> *.*.*.*
> >   Tunnel protocol/transport IPv6/IP
> >   Tunnel TTL 255
> >   Fast tunneling enabled
> >   Tunnel transmit bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
> >   Tunnel receive bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
> >   Last input 00:00:14, output 00:09:18, output hang never
> >   Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
> >   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output
drops:
> 0
> >   Queueing strategy: fifo
> >   Output queue: 0/0 (size/max)
> >   5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
> >   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
> >      20 packets input, 2176 bytes, 0 no buffer
> >      Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
> >      0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
> >      10 packets output, 936 bytes, 0 underruns
> >      0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
> >      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> >
> >
> > ############# from my router #########################
> >
> >
> > mini-me#sh int tu1
> > Tunnel1 is up, line protocol is up
> >   Hardware is Tunnel
> >   Description: BTexact Technologies tunnel broker
> (tb.ipv6.btexact.com)
> >   MTU 1514 bytes, BW 9 Kbit, DLY 500000 usec,
> >      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
> >   Encapsulation TUNNEL, loopback not set
> >   Keepalive not set
> >   Tunnel source *.*.*.*, destination 213.121.24.85
> >   Tunnel protocol/transport IPv6/IP
> >   Tunnel TTL 255
> >   Fast tunneling enabled
> >   Tunnel transmit bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
> >   Tunnel receive bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
> >   Last input never, output 00:00:10, output hang never
> >   Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
> >   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output
drops:
> 0
> >   Queueing strategy: fifo
> >   Output queue: 0/0 (size/max)
> >   5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
> >   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
> >      0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer
> >      Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
> >      0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
> >      20 packets output, 1776 bytes, 0 underruns
> >      0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
> >      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk
> > [mailto:wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Leach
> > Sent: 18 April 2007 12:51
> > To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
> > Subject: [Wylug-discuss] ipv4/6 broker and adsl supplier
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > following up Jim's talk, you can get a free ipv4 tunnel to the ipv6 
> > network for playing with from home via BT:
> > https://tb.ipv6.btexact.com/
> >
> > It's free to sign up and use, and if you specify that you're using 
> > Linux, they even e-mail you out pre-configured shell scripts.
> >
> >
> > Also, Black Cat Networks are one adsl supplier I know to offer 
> > direct (non tunnelled) ipv6 connectivity:
> >
> > http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/services/adsl
> >
> > I'm sure others exist and more will start cropping up.  I don't use 
> > Black Cat for adsl myself, but do for some other services and they 
> > are
> 
> > lovely.  I'm not affiliated with them in any way, although I do live

> > with some black cats.
> >
> > As Jim said, before connecting up to the ipv6 network I'd recommend 
> > brushing up on your ipv6 Netfilter skills (though with such a large 
> > address space, at least you're far less likely to be randomly 
> > scanned by script kiddies).
> >
> > John.
> >
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> >
> >
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