Monday, June 21st, 2010
Previous articles have detailed various aspects of getting IPv6 running on a home-gateway router. The aim is to migrate as much as possible towards an IPv6-only situation.
Here I cover the steps required to implement a simple point-to-point OpenVPN (SSL) VPN tunnel using PSK over IPv6 infrastructure.
One key element for me ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
My much-loved Pinnacle Showcenter (written about previously here, for example) finally packed up. Not sure what killed it - did the obligatory open-it-up-and-buzz-it-a-bit routine. PSU seemed OK, but when the main board was connected up, something was dragging the PSU down big-time. No obviously failed components, so you are left ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
IPv6 DNS - It works for me..... but it shouldn't.
When in my IPv6 environment I perform a test ping to, say, Google, it seems to work great:
ping6 ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(2a00:1450:8006::6a) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::6a: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=49.3 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::6a: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=44.6 ms
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Which is lovely. But I ...
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
After three articles, where am I with my venture in to IPv6? What have we really achieved so far? Well, in functional terms, not so very much yet!!
To recap:
Here I covered a lot of ground, getting basic IPv6 running on a Linux gateway box connected to an ISP providing native ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Following on from my first tutorial, we have a box set up which has basic IPv6 connectivity. There's a firewall in place with a simple but sufficient configuration. And we can ping6 from this box to remote IPv6 destinations.
All of this has, so far, made use only of one network interface (in ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Following on from my early success at get IPv6 running, I soon hit a significant issue: firewall logging.
Now this need not be a "blocker" for everyone, but I take my firewall logging duties quite seriously...!
shorewall IPv4 logging
Currently I have IPv4 shorewall configured to log not using the standard syslog mechanism, ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
With IPv6 slowly becoming more visible, it was time to get to grips with it. While absolutely not essential (yet!) it seemed like a fun idea: my ADSL provider offers native IPv6 in parallel with IPv4, and my hosting provider is running an IPv6 beta. So I can do native ...
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