Turns out that routing was very simple. Just obtain a tunnel from a broker (I use BT Exact).
Once you have a tunnel, you can set it up like so in baselayout
iptunnel_sit1="mode sit remote $REMOTE_IPV4 ttl 64" config_sit1=( "$TUNNEL_IPV6" ) routes_sit1=( "2000::/3" ) Then setup radvd for your allocation block (don’t forget to advertise the router this time) and you’re good to go :)
IPv6- the future? Not yet! :O
The problem as I see it is that it’s too complicated for end users. Even though I’m the maintainer of Gentoo networking scripts, I know nada about IPv6. It’s too complicated. Well it’s actually quite easy, it’s the documentation thats too complicated.
So here’s a quick and easy for IPv6 on the home network :)
Enable IPv6 in the kernel Add “ipv6” to your USE flags emerge-uaDvN world to get everything recompiled for ipv6 emerge iproute2 and baselayout-1.
seppelrockt asked on the Gentoo Forums about integrating xsupplicant with our network scripts seeing as baselayout has no support for it. As I don’t have anything xsupplicant can work with, I never got around to writing a module for it. However, in his last paragraph he said he wanted to change to wpa_supplicant for auth over the LAN.
My first thought was “WTF?” as wpa_supplicant is just for associating with an AP and then doing encryption / authentication, so I told him so!
After being told that baselayout-1.12.0_pre9 broke openvpn, I took a look at its init script. This baby had good ideas, but was poorly executed, hence causing breakage. As luckyduck is currently AWOI (absent with out internet) I decided to fix it. I also fixed a fair few outstanding openvpn bugs (mainly enhancements).
The new script is 3 quarters the size of the existing script as I’ve taken advantage of knowing baselayout :)
So when Abbey and myself were walking hand in hand across the wind swept beach near Estepona I whisked her onto some nearby rocks, wrapped her in my arms and asked her to marry me …….She looked me lovingly in the eyes and said “Yes” 8)I’m a very very very happy chappy right now :)
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