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If you are looking for a way to put your OpenWSN mesh network on the internetInternet, this page would be a perfect choiceis the one you're looking for. After you go through this page, you will be able to ping your mote in mesh network motes from internet.

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We assume you have

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gone through the Kickstart Linux or Kickstart Windows. If not, please do it first.

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Open an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel

Hurricane Electric (HE) provides free tunnel broker service which let you be able to services. It lets you reach the IPv6 Internet by tunneling over existing IPv4 connections from your IPv6 enabled host or router to , through one of our HE's IPv6 routers. Before using this service,  you need make sure you have an IPv6-capable host or router which also has IPv4 connectivity. 

To get your IPv6 address: open a tunnel:

  • create an account on tunnelbroker
  • login your account and select "Create Regular Tunnel"
  • then you will see a textbox, which let lets you fill your IPv4 address (see tips below)
  • select an available Tunnel Servers Server in the list and click "create Tunnel"

then The tunnel broker will assign assigns you an ipv6 IPv6 address and a /64 IPv6 prefix. You will see something like this:

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You can use http://ip4.me/ to check your public IPv4 address.

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You might get the following warning (red background) when you type in entering your ipv4 IPv4 address like:

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IP is not ICMP pingable. Please make sure ICMP is not blocked. If you are blocking ICMP, please allow 66.220.2.74 through your firewall.

This is caused by because your standard Windows distribution does not answer ping (ICMPv6 echo request) commandsYou can issue Issue the following command to force configure Windows (Vista in this case) to reply to ping (you need to open a Command Prompt by right clicking and choosing Open as Administrator). See Set Up Tunneling for details.

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# netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable

You will now see the following message with (green background if the address is available):

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IP is a potential tunnel endpoint.

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