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EdgeRouter configuration example for a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel

  EdgeRouter configuration example for a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel Introduction Hurricane Electric provide an IPv6 Tunnel Broker service, allowing a connection to the IPv6 internet across the IPv4 internet backbone.  Generally you would only want to use this if your own ISP does not provide native IPv6 connectivity. https://tunnelbroker.net/ From HE’s Tunnel Broker configuration site, when you create your tunnel, you will be provided with a few different IP addresses that you need to use: The HE destination IPv4 address to use for tunnel encapsulation ( Server IPv4 Address ). The internal address for your side of the IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel.  This is allocated out of a /64 subnet,  ending in ::2, with ::1 being the address at the Hurricane Electric end of the tunnel ( Client and Server IPv6 addresses ) A /64 prefix that they will route towards your tunnel. You would use this for your internal network, assuming you only need a single subnet behind our router ( Routed /64 ). Optionally,