UI-View and Internet Prototocol Version 6 (IPv6)

There are now about 30 Tier 2 servers listed on the Tier 2 IPv6 page which offer IPv6 connectivity .

The question is how to use them with UI-View, if you have IPv6 installed and public IPv6 connectivity with your PC. How to achieve this prerequisit is out of scope of this page. There are tons of articles for different hardware available on the Internet. Just check with a page like this if you are ready to go on.

UI-View can not digest the IPv6 addresses directly, but Windows includes fortunately a proxy server to solve the problem. This internal port proxy helps to IPv6 connect to an APRS-IS server and can also make your UI-WebServer accessible for IPv6 inbound connections. Let's focus on the outbond connection to a server here as a first step.

In order to connect UI-View to an IPv6 server, only the following simple steps are necessary:

Activate the Windows port proxy
go to Start/Run and execute cmd.exe
on the command prompt enter:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=<port #> connectaddress=<IPv6 server> connectport=14580
e.g.
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1616 connectaddress=france.ipv6.aprs2.net connectport=14580

Connect UI-View to the proxy
go to Setup/APRS Server Setup
in the servers box press INSERT
enter localhost:<port #> and press ENTER (<port #> is the above defined port number of the proxy)
check the box for the connection
connect to the server with Action/Connect ...

That's it. You can check your connection taking a look at the server's status page. The port proxy can be used by several different applications in parallel on the PC, e.g. UI-View, your WX client as well as a network analyser.

The above approach can obviously be applied to other APRS clients and software.

I have tested this on several XP pro boxes. It should also work on newer OS. If not, please let me know.

Acknowledgements
APRS ® Bob Bruninga WB4APR	javAPRSSrvr © Pete Loveall AE5PL	javAPRSFilter © Roger Bille SM5NRK	APRS2 © Phil Pacier AD6NH