Just set up a protocol 41 tunnel on both sides using iproute2 and do some routing magic 

Well in that case please put up another server in Amsterdam, too 
After Frankfurt and Fremont1 it's Amsterdam who has got the largest amount of tunnels on it.

@broquea or others: How much capacity does HE still have at tserv11.ams1?

Jup, still some kind of peering dispute between HE and L3... Has been a problem for a long time. I don't think actually it will be resolved in short-term.

FYI: PPTP service beta has ended

An IPv4 address space walks into a bar: "A strong CIDR please. I'm exhausted."

• I just had a fc00::bad:c0f:fee at my local bar
• There's no place like ::1
• In Soviet Russia, ip6.arpa reverses YOU!!
• CNN breaking news: IPv4 is causing one-way public transport due to NAT being implemented all over the world
• Because of address exhaustion, from today on APNIC will start allocating each ISP a /32.5 IP4 subnet
  

Any word on this?

+1

I received my shirt after some emailing with the HE staff, but it's way too large for me  

Anyone wants to trade their "L" shirt for an "XL" one?  

Amsterdam is again full. As a temporary fix for the tunnel exhaustion I started using my two /48s I got on AMS to provide IPv6 connectivity to friends and family (I'm some kind of Tunnelbroker too   ).

Frankly speaking, IPv6 tunnel and /48 exhaustion is exactly not what we need right now since the global IP4 pool ran out.

Maybe HE has to consider additional tunnelbroker capacity now IPv4 IANA space has run out. IPv6 is getting more and more popular every day, and I think we need to support those who don't have a native connection yet.

The HE IPv6 certifications aren't HE-specific at all, so anyone with IPv6 knowledge and connectivity can get certified. You don't even need IPv6 connectivity from home to earn your Sage.

Yes, I know. But for some reason I kind of find it self-evident that somebody who's interested in IPv6 certification also has at least an IPv6 connection at home (whether it is native or tunneled).  

Sorry, unfortunately you will not be able to establish a tunnel if the endpoint cannot be reached via ping.

May I ask you if you're a HE official on this forum? Your user icon seems to suggest that.

By the way, the topic starter seems to be Sage certified but doesn't have the ability to create a HE tunnel at his home . Maybe he'd better find an ISP which allows your global IP4 to be pingable.

Could you explain this to me? Thanks

Open a command prompt.

Code:

telnet *your-internal-router-ip*
user: Administrator
password: blank or whatever you set

service system ifadd name=PING_RESPONDER group=wan
connection unbind application=IP6TO4 port=0
saveall
exit
exit

Deja vu, seen this before on this forum  

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\>ping 66.220.2.74

Pinging 66.220.2.74 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.220.2.74: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=52

Whoops, I was wrong. Posted my reply a bit too fast I guess. Obviously you need to be able to ping your own external IP4 from another connection, not that 66.220 address from HE. I misread the error message you quoted

So yeah, as jimb already said: just configure your router to respond to pings.

[Error: Your IPv4 endpoint is unreachable or unstable. Please make sure ICMP is not blocked. If you are blocking ICMP, please allow 66.220.2.74 through your firewall.]

I temporarily took down my firewall and realtime scanning and attempted to set up a tunnel.  This is the message I got:

Error: Your IPv4 endpoint is unreachable or unstable. Please make sure ICMP is not blocked. If you are blocking ICMP, please allow 66.220.2.74 through your firewall.

Do you need to be a Rocket scientist or a super IT specialist or engineer to set up a tunnel.  Let's face it. It isn't straight forward is it!

I try to set up a tunnel from London and then I tried to set up a tunnel  from Amsterdam on two occasions so that was 3 attempts with the firewall and realtime scanning down.  Result taking down the firewall hasn't made any difference.

help and advice would be appreciatied

When you can ping your 81.178.217.160 from another connection it will be possible to create a tunnel. So just try to get it responding to pings, then you're done. Easy.

Edit: made a little correction

Heh.  I guess I should feel lucky.  I got both an HE and a Google IPv6 shirt.  The latter doesn't fit me though, since they didn't have XXL for fat guys like me.  

Hey, where did you get that Google shirt