Colby and I have finally completed our big upgrade of the QuadNet network and so now I can tell you about the new capability in QnetGateway. All four of our reflectors, XLX307, XLX587, XRF735 and XRF757 are now operating in dual stack mode and that means that linking can now be done using IPv6 addresses. Of course, QnetGateway is currently the only DStar client that is capable of linking over IPv6. Here is how you enable it:
- First, you need to make sure your hot-spot or repeater has a valid IPv6 address. Try "curl -6 icanhazip.com" from your system. If it reports an IPv6 address, you're ready!
- Make sure QnetGateway is configured for dual stack operation. In the IRCDDB sub-menu of ./qnconfig, make sure "ha" is set to "rrv6.openquad.net" and "hb" is set to "rr.openquad.net".
- In the Gateways sub-menu of ./qnadmin, execute the "i6" command to build a new gwys.txt file containing the IPv6 addresses for our four reflectors.
- Restart QnetGateway and then you will be able to link to any of our reflectors using DExtra, DCS or DPlus through an IPv6 connection!
After you've linked up using IPv6, go to the "Links" page of the reflector and you should see the list 32 bits of the 128-bit IPv6 address for you system.
If you want to link to the QuadNet Array, please consider linking to 735A rather than 757A or 307D, It's generally not nearly as busy as 757 or 307. Likewise, the QuadNet Tech Channel is available on 735C. But also, please remember we built the QuadNet network for IRCDDB
routing and I greatly encourage you to give that a try.
Tom Early