How To Browse IPv6 Websites
IPv6 is gaining popularity. Many sites are having IPv6 versions also. These days, I can see many torrents exclusively available on IPv6. In this post, I will guide you through a step by step procedure on how to browse IPv6 webpage on your windows box.
First, you need to have an IPv6 address. IPv6 Tunnel Brokers would help you achieve this. You can have an IPv6 tunnel created from Hurricane Electric’s free Tunnel Broker.
Get an Account from Hurricane Electric
It will take you to registration page. Fill in all the details.
Fill the registration form
Now it is time to login to your account.
Now that you have logged in, you can create a tunnel.
Let us create a tunnel
Just enter your IPv4 IP address. You can select a nearby location or Hurricane Electric will select one for you.
Let us enter the IPv4 address and nearby server
You will be taken to a page containing details of the created tunnel. You can select the OS and click the button.
Select the OS and Click the Show Config button
It will show the configuration generated.
Configuration for your platform is displayed
Open Command Prompt.
Open Command Prompt
Copy paste the configuration in the command prompt.
Now ping the IPv6 server IP address from the command prompt.
Ping the IPv6 Server IP
Now let us try if we can open a web page. Type http://ipv6.google.com in the address bar of your browser.
You should now see Google’s IPv6 Home Page – with bouncing logo.
Google IPv6 Home Page
Here’s an in depth overview of the different tunneling services available:
http://yorickdowne.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/ipv6-at-home-part-3-gogo6-hexago-tunnels-freenet6/
thesy guys are not sending me the password… so I tried
go6.net/4105/freenet.asp
which cant be configured over proxy it seems..
( i dinn find any provision to put proxy addr…)
Do you mean that you can’t get the tunnel to work through a proxy? What type of proxy would you use it with?
Thanks for sharing about IPv6. I was new to this gen next Internet protocol!!
Ok.. that was too quick a reply from me…
in case of go6 they have a client application (which is supposed to do something i guess to get the IP6 addr or something from their gateway from where it might be getting NATd , ) which is failing to connect to its gateway. I am connecting from a university connection with proxy authentication for external connection. The go6 client is giving connection error while attempting to connect to their server, which “could be” because it is not doing the authentication at local outgoing proxy.
About Hurricane… I tried it later coz I got the pw very late from them…
I copied the settings as shown in hurricane site for WinVista. But, when I pinged the server it failed. It is expected as any external ICMP messages are failing even for ipv4 addres (who is the culprit? external traffic not getting NAT via proxy when I use ping of a command prompt? seems like , bu frankly speaking I dont know… )
Then another doubt I have is the configuration itself. I see two things
1. They are saying something about protocol41 at firewall… I dont know what is my network proxy. Below is the config command for vista
netsh interface ipv6 add v6v4tunnel IP6Tunnel
netsh interface ipv6 add address IP6Tunnel 2001:470:1f04:3fa::2
netsh interface ipv6 add route ::/0 IP6Tunnel 2001:470:1f04:3fa::1
now I am expected to use my local address if my proxy is using protocol41… and when I tried to reconfigure… I got command prompt error
“You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. If joining a domain, go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again. If joining a workgroup, choose another workgroup name.”
Well I am not going to change my computer name… can I delete existing entry which I already made? (btw where is the entry made? in my computer or the server?)
2. how does the IP config output of those who successfully connected look like? Do you have a new network connection or something? just out of curiosity.. coz I am not seeing any…
I am not really into comp networks.. .so plz keep ur reply in novice levels ..
Regards,
Viswas