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IPv6 setup on Windows 2008 with static IP

Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 10:13:30

I'm a newbie trying to setup IPv6 on my Windows 2008 machine. The server has a static public IP without any NAT-restrictions. In order to test it I've requested a heartbeat tunnel (which I'll convert to a static one once everything's working), installed the OpenVPN tap driver and renamed the interface's name to "aiccu". But now I'm trying to run aiccu without success. The console application starts without any noticeable error but the status of the OpenVPN adapter remains "no network cable connected". Access to any IPv6-adress isn't possible. That's my aiccu.conf:

# AICCU Configuration (Saved by AICCU 2006.07.23) # Login information username XXX password XXX protocol tic server tic.sixxs.net # Interface names to use ipv6_interface aiccu # The tunnel_id to use # (only required when there are multiple tunnels in the list) tunnel_id XXX # Try to automatically login and setup the tunnel? automatic true # Script to run after setting up the interfaces #setupscript <path> # No configuration, only beat? noconfigure false # TLS Required? requiretls false # Be verbose? verbose true # Daemonize? daemonize true # Behind a NAT? behindnat false # Make heartbeats when the protocol needs it? makebeats true

And that's the console app's output:

C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads>aiccu-2008-03-15-windows-console.exe start sock_getline() : "200 SixXS TIC Service on noc.sixxs.net ready (http://www.sixxs .net)" sock_printf() : "client TIC/draft-00 AICCU/2008.03.15-console-win32 WinNT/6.0.6 002-SP2" sock_getline() : "200 Client Identity accepted" sock_printf() : "get unixtime" sock_getline() : "200 1274256544" sock_printf() : "username XXX" sock_getline() : "200 XXX choose your authentication challenge please" sock_printf() : "challenge md5" sock_getline() : "200 XXX" sock_printf() : "authenticate md5 XXX" sock_getline() : "200 Succesfully logged in using md5 as XXX" sock_printf() : "tunnel show XXX" sock_getline() : "201 Showing tunnel information for XXX" sock_getline() : "TunnelId: XXX" sock_getline() : "Type: 6in4-heartbeat" sock_getline() : "IPv6 Endpoint: 2001:xx" sock_getline() : "IPv6 POP: 2001:xx" sock_getline() : "IPv6 PrefixLength: 64" sock_getline() : "Tunnel MTU: 1280" sock_getline() : "Tunnel Name: My First Tunnel" sock_getline() : "POP Id: decgn01" sock_getline() : "IPv4 Endpoint: heartbeat" sock_getline() : "IPv4 POP: xxx" sock_getline() : "UserState: enabled" sock_getline() : "AdminState: enabled" sock_getline() : "Password: xxx" sock_getline() : "Heartbeat_Interval: 60" sock_getline() : "202 Done" Succesfully retrieved tunnel information for XXX sock_printf() : "QUIT Die With You" Tunnel Information for XXX: PoP Id : decgn01 IPv6 Local : 2001:xx IPv6 Remote : 2001:xx Tunnel Type : 6in4-heartbeat Adminstate : enabled Userstate : enabled Name : My First Tunnel Flag: HAS_IFHEAD not present Flag: NEED_IFHEAD not present heartbeat_socket() - IPv4 : xx [HB] HEARTBEAT TUNNEL 2001:xx sender xx xxx

IPv6 setup on Windows 2008 with static IP

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:41:18

In order to test it I've requested a heartbeat tunnel

(which I'll convert to a static one once everything's working),

installed the OpenVPN tap driver and renamed the interface's name to "aiccu".

And that is where you went wrong ;) Heartbeat == proto-41, as such you don't need the OpenVPN tun/tap driver. Just remove that driver (there is something like a deltapall.bat included) and uninstall it. Then normally run AICCU and all should be fine. You only need the tun/tap driver for AYIYA tunnels.

IPv6 setup on Windows 2008 with static IP

Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 20 May 2010 11:49:50

Just remove that driver (there is something like a deltapall.bat included) and uninstall it. Then normally run AICCU and all should be fine. You only need the tun/tap driver for AYIYA tunnels.

Thanks for making that clear ;-) Unfortunately, I still can't enable IPv6 connectivity. After removal of the tap driver (using the uninstaller which automatically removed the virtual adapter) I started AICCU and it prints exactly the same output as before but "ipconfig /all" doesn't show any IPv6 details. Access to IPv6 hosts is also impossible :-( Maybe the Windows Firewall is somehow blocking me?

IPv6 setup on Windows 2008 with static IP

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Thursday, 20 May 2010 13:10:29

I don't think that any Firewall comes into play there yet, you should check though that you are executing this all as a full administrator. Try peeking at the Windows Vista wiki article which mentions these things too.

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