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Hi,

I'm trying to setup a native IPv6 VPN (tap mode) with OpenVPN (2.1.4), but when I try to start
OpenVPN I get this error:

Thu Apr 7 13:03:14 2011 us=193127 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: 2001:690:2080:8009::198: [HOST_NOT_FOUND] The specified host is unknown.
Thu Apr 7 13:03:14 2011 us=193142 Exiting

If I change local address in openvpn.conf to IPv4, everything works fine. I get an IPv4 and IPv6 address from my local network. But now I would like to setup a native IPv6 VPN (no IPv4).
I read some docs from OpenVPN site and it seems that OpenVPN doesn't support IPv6 yet
So, does anyone know if OpenVPN will support IPv6 soon? or if there is any patch?

## my openvpn.conf:
local 2001:690:2080:8009::198
port 443
proto tcp-server
dev tap0
client-to-client
cd /etc/openvpn/keys
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh1024.pem
mode server
max-clients 5
duplicate-cn
keepalive 5 120
tls-server
comp-lzo
status /var/log/openvpn-status.log 2
verb 4
log /var/log/openvpn.log
log-append /var/log/openvpn.log
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
duplicate-cn
script-security 3

## ifconfig:
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 76:8F:41:D0:86:01
inet addr:193.136.44.198 Bcast:193.136.44.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2001:690:2080:8009::198/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::748f:41ff:fed0:8601/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:134626 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15193850 (14.4 MiB) TX bytes:556999 (543.9 KiB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 9E:6F:1A:63:2E:FA
inet6 addr: fe80::9c6f:1aff:fe63:2efa/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:134921 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17123014 (16.3 MiB) TX bytes:570726 (557.3 KiB)

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:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1067 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1067 (1.0 KiB)

tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 76:8F:41:D0:86:01
inet6 addr: fe80::748f:41ff:fed0:8601/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19554 errors:0 dropped:111916 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2483428 (2.3 MiB)

Thank you all

AMR

no, openvpn 2.1.4 , nor the upcoming openvpn 2.2, support native IPv6.
There is a patch (the -jjo patch) available to compile in IPv6 support.
This patch is scheduled to be included in openvpn 2.3, which enters the beta phase somewhere in june.