Trouble connecting to freenet6 with OpenBSD

[Jeff Workman]

All,

OK, after a week of fiddling with this, I am finally going to admit defeat
and ask you guys for help.  I am trying to connect to freenet6 with an
OpenBSD 2.7 machine.  Using the script generated on their web page does
not work for me and I have tried modifying it to no avail.

Here's what I'm doing:

# ifconfig gif0 12.20.153.71 206.123.31.102
# ifconfig gif0 inet6 3ffe:b00:c18:1fff:0:0:0:521 \ 
  3ffe:b00:c18:1fff:0:0:0:520 prefixlen 127

This statement produces an error about: 

ifconfig: SIOCDIFADDR: Address family not supported by protocol family

but...the interface still configures...I think..

# route add -inet6 default 3ffe:b00:c18:1fff:0:0:0:521

The above statement doesn't make a lot of sense to *me*, because it looks
like I'm trying to make the local host the default gateway!  But then
again, I'm pretty ignorant about ipv6, which is why I'm conducting this
experiment to begin with.  Anyhow, back to the shell....

# ping6 3ffe:b00:c18:1fff:0:0:0:520
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) pimpworks.us.freenet6.net -->
3ffe:b00:c18:1fff::520
16 bytes from 3ffe:b00:c18:1fff::520, icmp_seq=0 hlim=64 time=69.098 ms
16 bytes from 3ffe:b00:c18:1fff::520, icmp_seq=1 hlim=64 time=64.858 ms
16 bytes from 3ffe:b00:c18:1fff::520, icmp_seq=2 hlim=64 time=64.571 ms
^C

Well, that worked, but...let's try going somewhere else...

# traceroute6 altavista.ipv6.digital.com
traceroute to altavista.ipv6.digital.com (3ffe:1200:2001:1:8000::1), 30
hops max, 12 byte packets
 1  3ffe:b00:c18:1fff::4f0  64.827 ms  65.925 ms  65.138 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
^C

Nope, that didn't work...and neither does anywhere else.  

So, can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?

TIA,
Jeff


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