Just on a whim, I decided to fire up my gogo6 tunneling client once more. Although I’ve had it for months, it has remained unused ever since I first tried it because the IPv6 tunnel was so unstable. It just kept resetting every few minutes. That wasn’t fun at all.
This time, however, things were different.
To my surprise, the tunnel remained stable. As of this writing, it’s been up at least six or seven hours without resetting. Ive managed to surf to a few IPv6 sites and pinged a a few as well (using ping6, of course). The results are in the screenshot below.
Pinging CERNET's IPv6 site with ping6
I checked out the CERNET IVI Project website and ran their IPv6 test. The screenshot below shows a successful test. Take note that I erased my IPv6 address in the screenshot to keep curious fans from trying to connect directly to my system. My assigned IPv6 address is a routable public addresses, after all.
An IPv6 connectivity test from CERNET
With that done, I proceeded to the Hurricane Electric site where I had an IPv6 certification testing account. I was still a certified newbie there and I wanted to run some tests and upgrade my IPv6 certification. And so I did. I must admit, it felt kinda nice getting this:
Needless to say I wanted to advance much farther, but that will have to wait until I can get my hands on an IPv6-capable website or webserver where I have write privileges. Looks like I have some work to do!
