Monday, November 12, 2012

Do you want to connect to IPv6 Internet in a minute or so?

Well, I just learned a very quick way to connect to IPv6 Internet that really works! That is, if you have Fedora 17, but probably for other distributions it is equally easy. Here are two commands to execute that will enable IPv6 network connectivity to you personal computer:
yum -y install gogoc
systemctl start gogoc.service
First command installs package gogoc, while the second one starts it. Next time you'll need only start command. After the start command apparently nothing will happen but in a minute or so you'll have working IPv6 connection. Check it out:
# ping6 www.google.com
PING www.google.com(muc03s02-in-x13.1e100.net) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from muc03s02-in-x13.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=54.0 ms
64 bytes from muc03s02-in-x13.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=55.0 ms
^C
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 54.023/54.551/55.080/0.577 ms
As you can see, Google is reachable on IPv6 addresses. You can also try traceroute6:
# traceroute6 www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (2a00:1450:4016:801::1011), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1 2001:5c0:1400:a::722 (2001:5c0:1400:a::722) 40.097 ms 42.346 ms 45.937 ms
2 ve8.ipv6.colo-rx4.eweka.nl (2001:4de0:1000:a22::1) 47.548 ms 49.498 ms 51.760 ms
3 9-1.ipv6.r2.am.hwng.net (2001:4de0:a::1) 55.613 ms 56.808 ms 60.062 ms
4 2-1.ipv6.r3.am.hwng.net (2001:4de0:1000:34::1) 62.570 ms 65.224 ms 66.864 ms
5 1-3.ipv6.r5.am.hwng.net (2001:4de0:1000:38::2) 72.339 ms 74.596 ms 77.970 ms
6 amsix-router.google.com (2001:7f8:1::a501:5169:1) 80.598 ms 38.902 ms 39.548 ms
7 2001:4860::1:0:4b3 (2001:4860::1:0:4b3) 41.833 ms 2001:4860::1:0:8 (2001:4860::1:0:8) 46.500 ms 2001:4860::1:0:4b3 (2001:4860::1:0:4b3) 48.142 ms
8 2001:4860::8:0:2db0 (2001:4860::8:0:2db0) 51.250 ms 54.204 ms 57.569 ms
9 2001:4860::8:0:3016 (2001:4860::8:0:3016) 64.727 ms 67.339 ms 69.540 ms
10 2001:4860::1:0:336d (2001:4860::1:0:336d) 80.203 ms 82.302 ms 85.290 ms
11 2001:4860:0:1::537 (2001:4860:0:1::537) 87.769 ms 91.180 ms 92.931 ms
12 2a00:1450:8000:1f::c (2a00:1450:8000:1f::c) 61.213 ms 54.156 ms 55.931 ms
It simply can not be easier that that. Using ip command you can check address you were given:
# ip -6 addr sh
1: lo: mtu 16436
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: mtu 1500 qlen 1000
    inet6 fe80::f27b:cbff:fe9f:a33b/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: tun: mtu 1280 qlen 500
    inet6 2001:5c0:1400:a::723/128 scope global
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
And also routes:
# ip -6 ro sh
2001:5c0:1400:a::722 via 2001:5c0:1400:a::722 dev tun  metric 0
    cache
2001:5c0:1400:a::723 dev tun  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1280
2a00:1450:4008:c01::bf via 2a00:1450:4008:c01::bf dev tun  metric 0
    cache
2a00:1450:400d:803::1005 via 2a00:1450:400d:803::1005 dev tun  metric 0
    cache
2a00:1450:4013:c00::78 via 2a00:1450:4013:c00::78 dev tun  metric 0
    cache
2a03:2880:2110:cf01:face:b00c:: via 2a03:2880:2110:cf01:face:b00c:: dev tun  metric 0
    cache
2000::/3 dev tun  metric 1
unreachable fe80::/64 dev lo  proto kernel  metric 256  error -101
fe80::/64 dev vmnet1  proto kernel  metric 256
fe80::/64 dev vmnet8  proto kernel  metric 256
fe80::/64 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric 256
fe80::/64 dev tun  proto kernel  metric 256
default dev tun  metric 1
Probably I don't have to mention that if you open Google in a Web browser you'll be using IPv6. :) In case you don't believe me, try using tcpdump (or wireshark) on tun interface.
You can stop IPv6 network by issuing the following command:
systemctl stop gogoc.service
If you try ping6 and traceroute6 commands after that, you'll receive Network unreachable messages, meaning Google servers can not be reached via their IPv6 address.

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