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Ticket ID: SIXXS #14009685
Ticket Status: User

PoP: usqas01 - OCCAID Inc. (Ashburn, Virginia)

Tunnel Uptime showing as "0 days"

Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:45:44

Hi, My tunnel uptime is always showing 0 days:

Tunnel Information for T166409 The configuration for this tunnel looks like: Tunnel NameMy First Tunnel PoP Nameusqas01 PoP LocationAshburn, Virginia, United States United States PoP IPv466.117.47.228 TIC Servertic.sixxs.net (default in AICCU) Your LocationFallston, United States United States Your IPv4AYIYA, currently 71.121.176.154 IPv6 Prefix2001:4830:1600:545::1/64 PoP IPv62001:4830:1600:545::1 Your IPv62001:4830:1600:545::2 Created2015-05-21 13:04:40 UTC Last Alivenever Last Dead2015-07-29 01:15:01 UTC Uptime 0 days (based on latency check) Config StateAYIYA (automatically enabled on the fly) PoP StatusLive Tunnel Status on the PoP

The tunnel is up, I have been using it (I added IPvFoo to chrome and it shows that I get the IPv6 version of the Google search page). However; the status page here always shows 0 days uptime. I checked the Windows advanced firewall and it shows the rule that was added to allow the IPv6 Ping. What else should I check to get past day zero? Thanks, Tom

State change: user Locked

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:10:16

The state of this ticket has been changed to user

Tunnel Uptime showing as "0 days"

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:12:15

Last Alivenever

Clearly shows that it never was considered up.

The tunnel is up, I have been using it (I added IPvFoo to chrome and it shows that I get the IPv6 version of the Google search page).

That might mean you have connectivity, not that it satisfies that the connection is actually up.

What else should I check to get past day zero?

Read the FAQ on the subject. There is a link under the "latency check" that points to it, though searching for 'ping' on the FAQ page also clarifies it.

Tunnel Uptime showing as "0 days"

Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:50:13

Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Last Alivenever Clearly shows that it never was considered up.

The tunnel is up, I have been using it (I added IPvFoo to chrome and it shows that I get the IPv6 version of the Google search page).

That might mean you have connectivity, not that it satisfies that the connection is actually up.

What else should I check to get past day zero?

Read the FAQ on the subject. There is a link under the "latency check" that points to it, though searching for 'ping' on the FAQ page also clarifies it.

I installed using AICCU. That did not allow the PING into the firewall (there are no other instructions under the "automated" installation about allowing the PING through the firewall. Under the manual installation instructions it says to use: netsh firewall set icmpsetting SixXS enable all This doesn't work on Windows 7. After some searching on the internet, I finally found the following command which does allow the ping to start working: netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="All ICMP V6" dir=in action=allow protocol=icmpv6 The FAQ needs to be updated to reflect that the automatic install doesn't allow the ping and the manual instructions have the command incorrect.

Tunnel Uptime showing as "0 days"

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:43:25

I installed using AICCU.

AICCU on Windows enables IPv6 pings in the firewall rules.

                aiccu_exec("netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"%s\" "
                                "protocol=icmpv6:any,any "
                                "dir=in action=allow",
                                rulename);

But if the OS has other rules or configurations, the above might not be sufficient. Something for you to configure, AICCU cannot solve everything.

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