Tunnelling IPv6 from a mac over IPv4 tunnel through a debian firewall using tunnelbroker.net

Posted: 2010-10-24

Tunnel configuration

Sign up for an account at tunnelbroker

Once signed up - choose Create Regular Tunnel

Enter the IPv4 address of the external interface of your firewall. Note - this must be able to receive and respond to ping from arc.he.net - the webpage will give you an IP address to allow ping for if it can't ping your firewall.

Firewall configuration (debian lenny)

I had to open for incoming ping from he.net

iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -s 66.220.2.74 -d 0/0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

If your OUTPUT policy is not ACCEPT and doesn't allow ping then you may have to add some stuff there too.

You will need to forward protocol 41 to your inside box (my desktop is on the internal 192.168.1 network):

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p 41 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.x
iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth0 -p 41 -d 192.168.1.x -j ACCEPT

Client configuration (Mac Snow Leopard)

Head to pugio.net - there is a shell script to enable the interface and a launchctl plist to enable at launch

Test

Test with ping6 - for example:

chris$ ping6 pugio.net
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:xxxxxxxxxxxx --> 2002:4540:22b0::1
16 bytes from 2002:4540:22b0::1, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=231.701 ms
16 bytes from 2002:4540:22b0::1, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=209.833 ms
^C
--- pugio.net ping6 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 33.3% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 209.833/220.767/231.701/10.934 ms