Setting up IPv6 tunnel, having trouble with the GUI part

[Nathaniel Homier]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 13:45 -0700, Nathaniel Homier wrote:
> Ubuntu 10.04.2 GUI version
> 
> IPv6 tunnel by Hurricane Electric
> Home computer with direct net connection.  No router.  No need to give
> out IPv6 LAN addresses.  Strictly end user.
> 
> Ok, so here's my problem.  I signed up for a tunnel and used this how to
> located here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6#Get%20connected%20with%
> 20Hurricane%20Electric
> 
> Editing the interfaces file was easy enough I think.  The interfaces
> files ask for IP adresses like so 3501:470:1f04:1a82::1/64 Do I leave in
> the slash / and 64 or do I remove them like so 3501:470:1f04:1a82::1
> (fake IP addresses by the way)
> 
> Second, the how to talks about the GUI part about network manager.  The
> how to talks about two separate addresses.  One for the machines IP and
> a gateway IP.  In network manager on the IPv6 tab there is no gateway
> option, no box for inputting a gateway.  Also as above do I leave in the
> slash or remove it.
> 
> How did you get your Hurricane Electric tunnel up and running.

I got it to work by using the ip command.  HE kindly provided commands
to run after I found them by poking around the site.  Here is what I
did.  Word of warning, you may get a bunch of errors but thats ok, of
course don't you run these it won't work, because these are my account.

modprobe ipv6
ip tunnel add he-ipv6 mode sit remote 72.52.104.74 local 174.44.178.56
ttl 255
ip link set he-ipv6 up
ip addr add 2001:470:1f04:1a82::2/64 dev he-ipv6
ip route add ::/0 dev he-ipv6
ip -f inet6 addr

No files to edit, no need to restart networking.  Worked perfectly.
Even Bind is serving up DNS now in ipv6.  Wish I found these commands
earlier.  At HE there at the bottom of your account page.
I tested with these sites.
http://test-ipv6.com/
http://ds.testmyipv6.com/