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Prior name: Tornevall Networks RaspTunnel.

What is it?

Tornevall Networks RaspTunnel was an experimental project where we're adding micro servers into in a DMZ-controlled environment is hosting the primary IPv6 connectivity. Main purpose is ipv6 GRE-tunneling with the help from your primary router, which should be configured to route traffic to a DMZ-address, where this micro server, known as Raspberry pi, are the tunnel gateway.

The tunnel project has a primary goal: To configure ipv6 tunnels, where they are normally not reachable (ISP's that for example have no idea of what they are doing), or where the ip range is weakly configured without proper reverse PTR'sTornevall Tunneling is a semi-production project where we were adding microservers into a DMZ-controller environments. The main purpose was to get full IPv6 connectivity through GRE tunneling. The backside of GRE tunneling usually is that it is REQUIRED to put such tunnels primarily as an external first-connection device (by means: The device hosting the GRE tunnel must be your primary inbound connection, which is where the DMZ comes in).

For the moment, to create more stability, we instead build all solutions on OpenVPN which also gives the possibility to aquire local IPv4 addresses if necessary . Or if you like, LAN access.

What is the goal?

There are a few top providers that support IPv6 connectivity already. For example Spacedump AB and Hurricane Electric. Many providers offers connectivity through SIT/GRE/TUN/TAP drivers. One of the goals is to be a in-between layer of the regular tunnels, as they are required to be (like described above) located un-NAT'ed to work. Besides, we offer a reverse-PTR-DNS editor at https://auth.tornevall.net, specifically written to make DNS editing easier.

How does it work?

An installer injects required data into a raspberry pi, which is configured with a static ip address matching the network that needs it. It should be installed at the same ip range as your DHCP server and your incoming gateway shoud be configured with a DMZ-pointer to this machine.

With Tornevall Networks API, the pi will download data required for a controller to connect to the service, since the gateway should (unless the user have full control by themselves) be able to administered from an external point (Tornevall Networks IP-ranges). The API will also be used to configure dynamic tunnels.

As this is based on Linux (Raspian for pi 1, and Ubuntu 16 for pi 2 and pi 3), not only ipv6 tunnels may be considered. However, if there is ipv4 included here, we should make sure that the primary gateway are really routing networks properly. A recommended path for ipv4 tunnels should be somewhere at 10.0.0.0/8

This is a infrastructure issue, so the primary location of the ongoing project issue is located here:

Usage

Basically, everything is going to be handled through the pi. There are however an interface that automatically reconfigures the local tunnel ip address in case that is changing. The link looks like this:

https://api.tornevall.net/2.0/vpn/update/auth/tunnelUserName/key/tunnelUserKey/ip/auto/

One issue with the above address is that it is resolving to both ipv4 networks and ipv6 networks. If there are connection problems, you may want to try the pure ipv4-address instead, like this:

TorneAPI ipv4 only: https://api-4.tornevall.net/2.0/vpn/update/auth/tunnelUserName/key/tunnelUserKey/ip/auto/

To identify the current ip address http://identifier.tornevall.net/ip.php

Configuring the tunnel may be done manually with regular commands:

ip tunnel add <name> mode gre remote <addr>
ip addr <prefix> dev <name>

On the preinstalled raspberry pi there is however scripts that is making thing for you in /usr/local/sbin

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Automatically configures a tunnel based on the data entered at pi-tunnel.run, so this goes with two parameters:

<remote-connection-address> <your-prefix>

Firewalls

Yes. They will be there in a new future, since we are not focused on this part. The important thing is that everything is blocked when the pi fires up in production mode, and somehow, some base services only, will be allowed to connect to the DMZ-address.

The project itself

The project itself

JiraserverTornevall Networkscolumnskey,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolutionmaximumIssues20jqlQueryproject = INFRA AND (component = RaspberryVPN OR component = RaspTunnel) serverIdef1f2374-e58a-319f-9d38-10348dbac859No prior configuration or ip rule settings are required anymore. You only need OpenVPN and permission. Then it is up to you how your local endpoint are configured. Either we give you a simple IPv4/32 or IPv6/128 address, or we give you a /64 IPv6 subnet, as this is the smalles required size of a IPv6 subnet for DHCPv6 to work properly.

IPv6 Networks

DHCP delegation is normally installed clientside. It is also recommended to run dhcp on a /64-prefix. On prefixes higher (65 and up), it may not work properly.

Hurricane electric assigns prefixes by automation. The tunnel types there are based on the SIT-protocol. By requesting directly from them, there won't be any slowdowns in the routing.

Protocols

Supporting GRE but prefers OpenVPN. See below.

Remote Servers

Networks

* If prefix/length is set to 

Red marked ip ranges is networks that is not ready for assignments yet.

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