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Checking for blocked protocol 41?
[ca] Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:01:05
I have a, CentOS based, server located in a data centre and have decided that I want to add IPv6 connectivity. I followed the instructions here: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/ipv6-connectivity.html The configuration seems to have worked fine, giving me a 6to4 interface and a default route. The issues happen when I test connectivity, by doing a ping6 ipv6.google.com. I get "connect: Network is unreachable". Assuming my configuration is correct I can only assume that the protocol 41 is blocked. Other than asking the data centre people, is there any way to validate protocol 41 is blocked? I know I have aiccu which I could use, but I would like to attempt a vanilla 6to4 solution first.
Checking for blocked protocol 41?
[ch] Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff on Saturday, 27 September 2008 17:19:28
Wireshark/tcpdump is your friend here, that way you can actually see what the wire is doing. Just set up a proto-41 tunnel between two hosts and send some traffic, that should pop up traffic or ICMP unreachables which should show what is wrong; of course when traffic is filtered you don't see a thing. Actually, unless there is a firewall on the remote box which is dropping packets, you can just configure a tunnel on your host and then set the remote to any host on the internet, which should then send back ICMP "Protocol Unreachables" as they don't have a tunnel configured to your host. If no such packets are sent back, then well, it is filtered somewhere. Another way to do this is by using hping3 which just sends the packets. Of course note that 6to4 has this awesome great concept of anycast, but because of anycast debugging it is horrible as you have no idea on how packets come back.

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