Some starting documents

[Zenny]

On 12/4/12, Dick Middleton <dick at lingbrae.com> wrote:
> <q>
> The Mandos server uses IPv6 to allow Mandos clients to use IPv6 link-local
> addresses, since the clients will probably not have any other addresses
> configured (see the section called “OVERVIEW”).
> </q>

I did check the site again and read again and again, also INSTALL and
README file in the bzr repository, but could not exactly find the IPv6
requirement.

Is there any workout to make only IPv4-enabled mandos server and
clients to talk to each other? Just wondering.

>
> I still don't understand why ping fails. You need to find out.
>
> Dick.
>
> Zenny <garbytrash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 12/3/12, Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> wrote:
>>> On 12/03/12 20:40, Zenny wrote:
>>>> Hi again:
>>>>
>>>> I tried with completely new installations (single mandos-server and
>>>> single-client), and yet I could not figure out exactly why mandos is
>>>> not working. Both debian squeeze boxes.
>>>>
>>>> On mandos-monitor, I am getting:
>>>> "2012-12-03T21:33:27.142917: Checker for client
>>debian64.domain.local
>>>> (command "f
>>>> ping -q -- debian64\.domain\.local") failed with exit code 2"
>>>>
>>>> Any inputs will be appreciated!
>>>
>>> What is that's telling you?  Is ping actually working?  Do you have a
>>> network
>>> connection?
>>>
>>> If you've got 2 VMs on one machine they won't know about each other
>>unless
>>> you
>>> set up some sort of routing.  Are you using VirtualBox?  If so the
>>default
>>> network interface is NAT.  It would be easier if you used bridged
>>> interfaces
>>> with either dhcp if that's what you have, to allocate IP addresses,
>>or
>>> manually allocated on the same network as the host. Make sure these 2
>>> machines
>>> can talk to each other.
>>
>>I use qemu with a bridge created with the script here
>>(http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking/NAT#Script) which
>>creates a bridge and nat the network with dnsmasq. Very nifty script.
>>So there is no doubt that the machines are behind a NAT and see each
>>other, because they are under the same bridged network (br0).
>>
>>> Also make sure ipv6 is working.  If ifconfig
>>> reports
>>> ipv6 addresses that should do.
>>
>>Maybe this is the cause. I didn't enable ipv6 manually because none of
>>my network are ipv6, all ipv4 (both private and public).
>>
>>Is it mandatory to have ipv6 enabled?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> You must give us some information. The debug report in your last
>>message
>>> was
>>> just the initialization.  There was no interaction.   Also what
>>happened on
>>> the client?  Debug on both server and client please.
>>>
>>> I'll help you if I can but at the moment I can only give uninformed
>>> guesses.
>>>
>>> Dick
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