[ale] IPv6 routing issues

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 08:28 -0600, JK wrote:
> > 	Another possibility you could try would be to configure a passthrough
> > on that DSL router/NAT for protocol 41.  That's not port 41 and it's not
> > TCP or UDP.  It's protocol 41.  That's the SIT protocol.  It sits
> > directly on IP.  TCP is IP protocol 6, UDP is IP protocol 17, ICMP is IP
> > protocol 1, SIT aka IPv6 aka 6in4 is IP protocol 41.  I don't know your
> > device so I don't know if you have that option.
> 
> Bleh. 2Wire HomePortal, knows nothing about anything other than TCP and
> UDP.
> 
> So, I put a stupid DSL modem directly in front of my Ubuntu box,
> grabbed a public v4 addr from ATT, locked down iptables (for both
> v4 and v6 traffic), and the freenet6 client started working.
> Unfortunately, this will require some fairly major re-organization
> of my network, but oh well.  Should be fun.

I was doing that for quite a while.  I run a connection to HE for my
IPv6 connection, though it seems that there may be something more local,
like a SIXXS connection point here in Atlanta.

	--- Mike