A Fellow’s View of the APAN Meeting

It’s already been two weeks. Sorry for the late post, but I think I owe it to this blog to post something about my trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There I attended the 28th Asia-Pacific Area Network (APAN) Meeting on July 19-24 as a Conference Fellow (i.e. free).

APAN is a conference on Networking particularly centered on Asia-Pacific communities. It’s unique because it showcases the advances in network research with great emphasis in the academic setting. Most presenters are from universities in Asia, with a reasonable number from the government sector, and a select few from experts in the non-profit organizations and the commercial sector.

I applied for the fellowship grant with no expectation at all. I didn’t even knew about the results until a friend (a more senior colleague) told me I was able to secure a spot. I was lucky to be one of the people in the picture below. I was so happy and thankful! ^^

IPv6 in 30 Minutes

If you were inspired to implement DNSSEC through the presentation “DNSSEC in 6 Minutes” by Alan Kegg (ISC), today I found the IPv6 version!

As I was running through the archives of the latest NANOG meeting, I chanced upon this catchy topic.  The title of the presentation Deploy a Production IPv6 Network in 30 Minutes or less (or it’s free) by Richard A Steenbergen looks very promising…

Forgive the premature post. I have to go watch the talk first (then maybe implement on a test environment) before I can really say anything. I’m hoping it can convince more people to migrate to IPv6 soon.

How-To: Manually Set IPv6 Address in Mac OS X

Since i began using ipv6, I have never set a routable static ipv6 address yet. I have a Linksys (w/ dd-wrt firmware) router serving as DHCP server, so i reckon there’s no use for that.

UPDATE: On second thought, there must be that ONE time. I must have configured statically when testing the tunnelbroker via wired connection. I’m not too sure.

Anyway, today – as we are testing our network for native ipv6 – i had to configure my machine and assign manual ip address. It’s only now that I discovered the problem (a bug?) in the GUI. Luckily, I am not alone, and a few searches yield helpful infos.

Using the GUI, the basic step is typically same as v4 (we all know this):
SystemPreferences -> Network->Advanced
Under Configure IPv6, select Manually and input your static ipv6 address.

However, it is likely that although settings are saved in the gui, the network config does not update at the same time.

How-To: Setup IPv6 Connectivity using DD-WRT

I was bored. Plus it was planned long before anyway. [Why just now? It's either i have other things to do, or I had to let go of the completely-configured AP to deploy somewhere else.]

So here’s how i set-up an IPv6 connectivity using Tunnelbroker and a Linksys WRT54G running on DD-WRT firmware.

I. Setup an account in Hurricane Electric’s Tunnelbroker.

1. Signup for an account in TunnelBroker. Be ready to provide information, such as your valid email address. The password will be delivered to your email.
2. Once you have logged in, click “Create regular Tunnel” under User Functions in the left-hand side of the screen. NOTE: you can also create BGP tunnel (haven’t tried yet)
3. In the “Setup IPv6 Regular Tunnel” page, input your static public IPv4 address. Note that this should be reachable via icmp before it can be added.
4. Select the server closest to you. I chose Hong Kong. Then Submit.
5. Check the Tunnel Details for your newly created tunnel. You are allowed to create a maximum of 4 tunnels for your account.