Re: (ipv6) Problem using TSP: router advertisements incorrect?

Ed Kapitein <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:59:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.ipv6.general
Message-ID <1142438366.15953.20.camel@localhost>
Hi Daniel,

I think what is missing is ip forwarding on the windows PC.
in linux you can switch on ip_forwarding by 
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/forwarding

Perhaps windows has a simmiliar feature.


Kind regards,
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On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 21:53 +0800, Daniel Wong wrote:
> Dear IPv6 users,
> 
> I have recently tried to set up a TSP client to use the TSP protocol
> to automatically set up IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels.  I could get it to
> work and see the dancing turtle (kame) for one host using anonymous
> mode, but when I tried for a PC router configuration with a windows
> PC, the PC router was able to see the dancing turtle, but other nodes
> were not.  The PC router appeared to be sending out ICMPv6 router
> advertisements, but the surrounding hosts didn't appear to be picking
> up, and they didn't auto-configure.  Any ideas why? 
> 
> I tried with both Windows and Linux for the surrounding hosts, but
> neither appeared to have picked up the router advertisements to
> auto-configure, although tcpdump showed that ICMPv6 router
> advertisements were indeed being sent out.  Is there some subtle
> misconfiguration of a windows PC router that could result in such
> behavior? 
> 
> sorry if this has been asked before but I missed the answer.
> 
> thanks
> Daniel

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