Friday, March 6, 2009

IPv6 over KPN Mobile UMTS

I plugged in a (borrowed) KPN Mobile UMTS PCMCIA card (Huawei E620) into my Ubuntu system. I had to click on "Netherlands" then "KPN Mobile" then activate, and I was online with UMTS. And ... hello again ... PPP! Long time no see! ;-)

UMTS was one of the technogolies that promised to give the world IPv6. Just like IMS and others. Well ... NOT: plain IPv4.

Luckily enough IPv6 is easy to activate with miredo / teredo. One command and IPv6 was running. See below. Cool. I can now access my machines at home (SABnzbd for example), and Tiberius' music sollection, all over IPv6.




ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:42:13:41:73 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:16

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
          inet addr:92.69.52.174  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18409 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:24517667 (24.5 MB)  TX bytes:992150 (992.1 KB)

teredo    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          inet6 addr: fe80::ffff:ffff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2001:0:53aa:64c:454:4747:a3ba:cb51/32 Scope:Global
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1280  Metric:1
          RX packets:234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
          RX bytes:32928 (32.9 KB)  TX bytes:24480 (24.4 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:de:10:c5:06 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-18-DE-10-C5-06-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

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Sent from: Schiphol Nh Netherlands.

1 comment:

Eva said...

Q! Great to see you're enjoying yourself with a bit of UMTS and a lot of IPv6. Any reason why my newsgroups are down since 2 days?