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IPv6 linking!

 

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:
  1. 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!
  2. 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".
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
 

Thank you Tom and Colby for all of the work in getting this up and
running. I copied this post and put it on the Facebook group as well as
a link to the groups.io page. Hopefully it will generate some interest.

Jeff VE6DV

On Fri, 2020-07-17 at 06:56 -0700, Tom Early wrote:
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.
 

Problem I had last night.? ?Since you suggested we switch from XRF757A to RF735A I re-did my Crontabs to do that Saturday?

On my Pi-Star hotspot. NO tribble at all?

I THOUGHT I had administratively switched by Qnetgateway coolspot but it appears I did not

When the XRF net came up last night? NOT IN FILE? ?I did the F bit. and NOT IN FILE? I did an US, GP IS and NOT IN FILE

Finally I did the IP bit (Switched to the Pi-star gateways list) then F again then LINKED TO XRF735 Alpha

SUCCESS.?

Looks like the larger IV gateways file needs attention.. Simce I do not plan on linking to repeaters. only reflectors I'll stick with IP for now

(I may some day put in one more hotspot liked to my repeater of registration but ...? VERY low priority)?
 

Hi John,

Use the VA3UV sources for the gwys.txt file at your own risk. I include these for historical reasons. Ramesh has a huge number of repeaters in his list which might be useful to some folks, but he doesn't get very high marks on his list of reflectors. I would rather trust the PiStar sources for the reflectors.

What I would actually recommend is that if there are one or a few reflectors you want, fish them out of the VA3UV list and put then in your own My_Hosts.txt file in your build directory, then build your gwys.txt file with the "i6" or "ip" menu command and your My_Hosts.txt file will be added to the end of the gwys.txt file.

Tom N7TAE
 

Yup. I kind of figured that out the Pi-Star (IP) list worked 100%... I will stick with it. Thanks for the reply.

"Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business" Note I am not a doctor, I don't even play one on television John F Davis

,
Yup. I kind of figured that out the Pi-Star (IP) list worked 100%... I will stick with it. Thanks for the reply.

"Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business" Note I am not a doctor, I don't even play one on television John F Davis

Yup. I kind of figured that out the Pi-Star (IP) list worked 100%... I will stick with it. Thanks for the reply.

"Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business" Note I am not a doctor, I don't even play one on television John F Davis
On Monday, July 27, 2020, 09:40:08 AM EDT, Tom Early <n7tae@...> wrote:


Hi John,

Use the VA3UV sources for the gwys.txt file at your own risk. I include these for historical reasons. Ramesh has a huge number of repeaters in his list which might be useful to some folks, but he doesn't get very high marks on his list of reflectors. I would rather trust the PiStar sources for the reflectors.

What I would actually recommend is that if there are one or a few reflectors you want, fish them out of the VA3UV list and put then in your own My_Hosts.txt file in your build directory, then build your gwys.txt file with the "i6" or "ip" menu command and your My_Hosts.txt file will be added to the end of the gwys.txt file.

Tom N7TAE

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