[AusNOG] IPv6: Where's my tunnel?

[Chris Jones]

On 07/03/2013, at 9:59 AM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au> wrote:

> On 03/07/2013 08:06 AM, Paul Brooks wrote:
>> ...
>> Perhaps. If you'd prefer a tunnel to AU rather than all the way to US...
>> 
>> You can get a free IPv6 tunnel from the ARNNET Tunnel Broker 'for non production use'-
>> considerably better latency for local sites than running to HE -
>> http://www.aarnet.edu.au/network/network-operations/protocols/ipv6  and
>> http://broker.aarnet.net.au/
> 
> The AARNet broker has been broken for some time (no pun intended). I've raised this with Steve Walsh, but he was struggling with limited time, obsolete equipment, and other priorities last time we spoke about it.
> 
> I tried it again just now, and the tunnel creation is still broken.
> 
> Paul
> 

Tunnel creation seems to work, so long as you don't request a subnet to be routed.