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Ubiquity EdgeOS 1.7

Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 09 September 2015 18:53:19

Hi, my DIR-825 running Barrier-Breaker OPENWRT tried to melt itself and has been consigned the the suspect hardware pile, probably indefinitely!!! I have replaced it with a Ubiquity Edgerouter X - a nice little box with lots of configuration options including lots of IPv6 stuff. There are a number of articles talking about SIXXS and SIT tunnels. As usual the challenge is the lack of a static IP. I was using AICCU Heartbeat tunnel on the OpenWrt which worked fine. There are suggestions that the heartbeat functionality can be emulated via a python script on the EdgeRouter. I followed the setup guides I could find and could not get it to work. As a short term measure, hopefully, I have setup a HE Tunnel - they use DYNDS updater protocol for their heartbeat which was pretty straightforward to setup using the DDNS client on the Ubiquity. Does anyone have a HeartBeat Tunnel up and running on a Ubiquity Box? Could you share some configuration tips to enable me to get my SIXXS tunnel up and running again pls?

Ubiquity EdgeOS 1.7

Carmen Sandiego on Friday, 11 September 2015 09:14:22

Adrian Merwood wrote:

Does anyone have a HeartBeat Tunnel up and running on a Ubiquity Box? Could you share some configuration tips to enable me to get my SIXXS tunnel up and running again pls?

I did the same last week on a Ubiquity Edgerouter X, too. I followed the wiki page to add Debian packages to Edge OS: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205202560-EdgeMAX-Add-other-Debian-packages-to-EdgeOS After this it is possible to simply install the aiccu package through apt-get. The configuration was easy. If you change the tunnel device from 'sixxs' to 'tunX' in /etc/aiccu.conf you can even manage the tunnel interface through EdgeOS.

Ubiquity EdgeOS 1.7

Carmen Sandiego on Friday, 11 September 2015 11:44:20

I have the following IPv6 related snippets in my config file:

switch switch0 {
    address 10.0.0.1/24
    address 2001:yyyy:yyyy:yyyy::1/64
    description LAN
    ipv6 {
        dup-addr-detect-transmits 1
        router-advert {
            cur-hop-limit 64
            link-mtu 0
            managed-flag false
            max-interval 600
            other-config-flag false
            prefix 2001:yyyy:yyyy:yyyy::/64 {
                autonomous-flag true
                on-link-flag true
                valid-lifetime 2592000
            }
            radvd-options "RDNSS 2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1 { };"
            reachable-time 0
            retrans-timer 0
            send-advert true
        }
    }
    switch-port {
        interface eth1
        interface eth2
        interface eth3
        interface eth4
    }
}

and

protocols {
    static {
        route6 ::/0 {
            next-hop 2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1 {
            }
        }
    }
}

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