IPv6 over KPN Mobile UMTS ... with Nokia N95: easy!

Even easier than clicking my mouse button three times: connect my Ubuntu with an USB cable (Tiberius is laughing at me about the cable) to my Nokia N95 8GB. On the Nokia, I choose "PC Suite". After a few seconds, Ubuntu shows the Nokia in the Network Manager. When I select it, the connection is working. After a few seconds, miredo / teredo IPv6 kicks in.

Wow, this is even easier than the Huawei E620 PCMCIA card.

Oh, one confession to make: I'm doing this on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Jaunty Alpha 5. I don't know if/how this works on Ubuntu 8.10. UPDATE March 13, 2009: It works the same (thus perfectly) on Ubuntu 8.10: connect the N95, choose PC Suite, click two times on your computer, and everything works.

Tiberius is still thinking how we can connect / reflect / bridge Avahi services over IPv6. When that works, pidgin-with-bonjour is really great. And that's today's picture: pidgin with bonjour.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:42:13:41:73 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:16

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
          inet addr:77.62.138.122  P-t-P:10.6.6.6  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:12616 (12.6 KB)  TX bytes:11763 (11.7 KB)

teredo    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          inet6 addr: 2001:0:53aa:64c:5e:4747:b2c1:7585/32 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::ffff:ffff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1280  Metric:1
          RX packets:867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:933 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
          RX bytes:359027 (359.0 KB)  TX bytes:118599 (118.5 KB)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$