This ended up being amazingly close to how I did it. I do wonder why you needed to put sixxs in
/etc/network/interfaces? Here, aiccu automatically brings up and configures that interface.
I did not know that, but after looking at it, I prefer the
explicitness of /etc/network/interfaces. Also, it
allows me to specify hooks, e.g. to load the packet filter.
Manually setting up reverse PTR records in bind for my ipv6 addresses was too annoying for me, especially when I considered maintenance going forward. Wonder if there’s a good tool for that. —Joey
People have suggested that this is really the domain of a dynamic protocol, such as avahi, or stateful configuration with e.g. dibbler-server or wide-dhcpv6-server. Will update the post.
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Why not using the IETF’s recommended method for getting an IPv6 tunnel? Namely, 6in4:
/sbin/ip tunnel add tun6to4 mode sit ttl 44 remote any local 123.45.67.89(and a couple more commands). Has a couple of advantages like not needing registration, giving you a /64 by default, and using anycast which is just plain cool.
I think this is pretty much exactly what ifupdown does:
wall:~|master|% ip tun
sit0: ipv6/ip remote any local any ttl 64 nopmtudisc
sixxs: ipv6/ip remote 194.1.163.40 local 84.75.148.163 ttl 64
p.s. kudows on using OpenID
I am liking it a lot!
