Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and 6to4 on routers
Edward == Edward Ned Harvey lop...@nedharvey.com writes: Edward So I logically conclude: If your little linksys or whatever Edward router supports 6to4, and it can distribute IPv6 to the Edward autoconfigure clients on your LAN, that means you don't even Edward need to do *any* thing to your windows/mac/whatever laptops etc. Edward Just enable the checkbox for 6to4 in your little router, and Edward voila, you have IPv6 running on your LAN. 6to4 still requires protocol 41 traffic to be routable beyond your little linksys. Some ISPs block that. Edward Anybody doing anything like this in practice, or am I just Edward talking theory at this point? Unfortunately, I can't test it Edward myself, because I'm one of the saps who doesn't get a real IP Edward address from their ISP. In which case, go to tunnelbroker.net, and get yourself a free 6-in-4 tunnel from Hurricane Electric, which gives you IPv6 *anywhere* that you can get *out* (even through multiple NATs) to the internets. I have a tunnel from them for my home network (my ISP doesn't pass proto 41), and another for my laptop. V6 *anywhere*. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and 6to4 on routers
From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:mer...@stonehenge.com] In which case, go to tunnelbroker.net, and get yourself a free 6-in-4 tunnel from Hurricane Electric, which gives you IPv6 *anywhere* that you can get *out* (even through multiple NATs) to the internets. Good to know. But it's still desirable to have the local router handing out IPv6 addresses to local clients... So I don't have to manually configure every device that I'll ever use. I guess the question is: What do various routers support? Are there any home or smb routers which can use 6to4 or 6-in-4 or anything else on the WAN side, and support IPv6 distribution autoconfigure on the LAN? I know you can in theory. I just want to know what's the state of the world in practice. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and 6to4 on routers
Edward == Edward Ned Harvey lop...@nedharvey.com writes: Edward Good to know. But it's still desirable to have the local router Edward handing out IPv6 addresses to local clients... So I don't have Edward to manually configure every device that I'll ever use. Indeed. My home router is an Apple Airport Extreme, and it supports both 6to4 (if my ISP did) and the 6-to-4 tunnel I got from HE. If you use one of the modern free OS as your border router (Linux, any of the BSDs), there's also no problem supporting either. Dunno about other commercial routers. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
