This is a chicken and egg situation.

you can't use the link until you have a subnet. You can't use get a 
subnet until your link is up and working.

On 03/03/2010 11:11 AM, Dennis Karlsson wrote:
> Until you get your subnet you can't do anything.
>
> It's working for me with sixxs.
>
> On 2010-03-02 18:00, Mark Phillips wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get an IPv6 link going to sixxs.net.
>>
>> I've followed the wiki howto found here
>> https://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Configuring_MonoWall but I cannot raise the
>> link.
>>
>> When I do an ifconfig -a via /exec.php I get this for gif0 so it looks
>> like something is happening;
>>
>> gif0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>> tunnel inet 173.63.170.47 --> 66.117.47.228
>> inet6 fe80::202:e3ff:fe44:1b5e%gif0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x18
>> inet6 2001:4830:1600:277::2 --> 2001:4830:1600:277::1 prefixlen 128
>> inet6 2001:4830:1600:278::2 --> 2001:4830:1600:278::1 prefixlen 128
>>
>>
>> If I transfer the settings to my winXP box I get a successful tunnel
>> and can stream audio from the University of Southampton's IPv6 media
>> server without issue.
>>
>> Using
>> http://www.subnetonline.com/pages/ipv6-network-tools/online-ipv6-ping.php
>> I cannot ping my end of the tunnel on monowall but can on my XP machine.
>>
>> ping6 2001:4830:1600:277::1 from monowall to the ISP fails suggesting
>> that the link is not up.
>>
>> I have both LAN and WAN IPv6 rules set to allow ping to the v6 WAN
>> address and and "all-star" rule to allow any to any.
>>
>> I don't have any v6 addresses yet. sixxs won;t give me any until my
>> link has been up for a while and I've enough credits to pay for it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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