P2P networking

To start with Peer to Peer networking, install the Peer 2 Peer component (XP – Add remove programs>Add remove Windows Components>Network components>Peer 2 Peer).

Turn on your IPv6 stack.

net start p2psvc

netsh p2p pnrp cloud show list

I was not able to connect with the seed server

netsh p2p pnrp diag ping seed

 

To turn on Teredo based IPv6 for your PC. On XP – make it the DMZ server if behind a NAT firewall or redirect ports 3544 and 3540 to your machine.

 

netsh interface ipv6 set teredo client teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com

netsh interface ipv6 set teredo enterpriseclient
(if on a Domain)

(I also found teredo.alicenet.de but it did not give me an address).

The IGD tool from Microsoft helps you evaluate your network connection to the Internet.

A nice diagram on connecting IPv6 and IPv4.

A good post on setup of IPv6 (with Teredo) at home; setup of IPv6 with tunnelbroker and more at this link.

This post discusses how you can setup a Teredo broker (Miredo). It also lists some Teredo servers around the world.

 

When Teredo is running on my PC, I am able to ping6 ipv6.l.google.com; but I cannot get IE or Firefox to use IPV6. Both browsers use IPv6 when I use the Hexago Gateway IPv6 Tunnel client.

Installing Ubuntu 8.1 (Incredible Ibex)

Download the ISO from the Ubuntu site. It was very easy to install, however the updates took quite a while (2 hrs @ 16Mibps).

 

Links

Installing a web proxy server

Setup FreeNX for a fast remote desktop client

When looking at the out-of-box applications, I got interested in the VOIP softphone (Ekiga).It has a Windows client as well, but that was not easy to locate. I got a free SIP address for myself. (sip:cs905s@ekiga.net)

While going through the setup of Ekiga, the NAT detection gave “STUN test result: Port restricted NAT”. Since I didn’t get any meaningful explanation on Google, I opted to enable STUN support. For a headphone, I opted to pull out my Bluetooth USB adapter and hook it up to the Motorola Bluetooth headset. (Lost the manual and found this nice tutorial on the net. I must wait for 2 hours for the headset to charge. I need to figure out how to connect the headset to the USB. Not that simple?Rather easy compared to Windows XP)

Ekiga provides a call out service (diamondcard.us) where I created a divyamahajan account. However it is still on a security hold even after the paypal payment was done.

Eventually, Ekiga did not work.

Decided to throw in the towel and leave it.

IPv6 native providers ISPs

rh-tec.de does provide native IPv6 in Germany. They are on the pricey side however.

For a longer list of native IPv6 providers, try this link at Hurricane Electric. Their state of IPv6 report is worth reading.