IPv6 Internet access via the Internode Tunnel Broker

Using a software 'tunnel', IPv6 access using a dynamic IPv6 address is available to all Internode customers.

With this method, tunnel client software is loaded on to your end system.

This software connects your system to the Internode IPv6 tunnel gateway and links you through to our IPv6 backbone.

The tunnel server allows your end system(s) to access to IPv6 even if your ADSL router or other devices in your network do not support IPv6 access directly

Systems currently supported for use with our Tunnel Broker include Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Cisco routers.

Details for connecting to the Internode Tunnel Broker are available by clicking here.

If you're familiar with connecting to a Hexago IPv6 tunnel broker, you can just go right ahead and connect to sixgw.internode.on.net, and use your Internode username and password to authenticate.

Tunnel Overheads are included in your download assessment

Internode meters your monthly downloads by measuring the total bytes of IPv4 packets delivered to your service.

Using the Tunnel Broker, IPv6 packets are encapsulated into IPv4 packets in order to move IPv6 data between your end system and our tunnel broker.

IPv6 access using the Tunnel Broker necessarily results in a small additional data overhead (the extra data being needed to encapsulate your IPv6 packets into IPv4 tunnel packets).

Accordingly, data downloads using IPv6 will result in higher consumption of your download quota compared to a download of the same quantity of payload data using IPv4.