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clarification of non-static tunnel uptime requirements

Shadow Hawkins on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:05:13

I signed up for a SixXS account to get IPv6 connectivity on my laptop. IPv6 connectivity that travels with me is much more useful to me than dropping a box at home just to keep a tunnel alive. Due to the irregular connectivity of the laptop, I have not earned any ISK in over a month of regular usage. I always start the AICCU utility whenever I'm connected to the internet, and refresh http://ipv6.google.com each time I connect. I have done the packet captures and I know my system is responding to the PoP pings when the tunnel is up. I have searched the forums and read the FAQ, and the only indication I can find as to what uptime is required for a non-static tunnel is the following hint from the "Tunnel endpoint didn't ping" FAQ entry:

Thus you have 24 * 2 * 20 = 1920 pings the chance to be up every day.

The ambiguous sentence structure throws me off. This seems to indicate that the tunnel must respond to a ping at least one time per day, every day for 2 weeks straight, in order to earn the recurring 5 ISK. Would someone please confirm? Can it be any consecutive 2-week period, or is it a cycle of 2 weeks since ISK was most recently earned?

clarification of non-static tunnel uptime requirements

Shadow Hawkins on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:37:03

Is your tunnel always up for at least 30 consecutive minutes every day? Do all the places you connect from allow incoming ICMPv6 pings?

clarification of non-static tunnel uptime requirements

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 21:59:55

Due to the irregular connectivity of the laptop

In other words "it is not always connected" thus that might cause it to not be recognized as up.

and refresh http://ipv6.google.com each time I connect.

The ping test is just that a ping test between the PoP and your endpoint, nor HTTP nor google come into play here.

Thus you have 24 * 2 * 20 = 1920 pings the chance to be up every day.

24 hours, 2 due to twice per hour, and then 20 pings will be sent to you.

This seems to indicate that the tunnel must respond to a ping at least one

time per day, every day for 2 weeks straight, in order to earn the recurring 5

ISK.

That is the extreme bare minimum yes.

Can it be any consecutive 2-week period, or is it a cycle of 2 weeks since

ISK was most recently earned?

The first moment that the endpoint is seen as alive it is marked and the counter goes from there on.

clarification of non-static tunnel uptime requirements

Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:17:42

This seems to indicate that the tunnel must respond to a ping at least one time per day, every day for 2 weeks straight, in order to earn the recurring 5 ISK.

That is the extreme bare minimum yes.

Thank you! I must have gone more than a day on some weekends without booting up my laptop. I just wanted to make sure my efforts at connecting more often would pay off in earning ISK without wasting weeks/months to trial and error. I hope this helps someone in the future as well.

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