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Re: [LUG] IPv6

 

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Rob Beard wrote:

On 24/11/10 15:40, Gordon Henderson wrote:

OK - I now have native IPv6 on my home/office network. None of this
tunnelled stuff, I have it for real and my ISP fully supports it. (One
of only 2 ISPs who are supporting it as far as I'm aware - Entanet and
AAISP)

If you're asking the question: "What's IPv6" then I suggest you come out
of your cave and have a google ;-)

Is anyone here interested in IPv6? I'm wondering about going to the
effort of doing demos for anyone or producing some brief how-to's to get
yourselves online, etc.

Personally I feel that *we* ought to be hassling our ISPs and demanding
IPv6 *now* and not next year when we really do run out of IPv4
addresses... Afterall, IPv6 has only been going for 10 years, so it
really shouldn't be new to anyone.

Cheers (from 2001:4d48:ad51:8900::1 - DNS tomorow ;-),


I'd be interested but I doubt Virgin will support IPv6 yet. I agree though ISPs should be pulling their fingers out.

Saying that, what about routers such as off the shelf Netgear, Linksys and Belkin etc routers (i.e. not ones that run something like DD-WRT), would they need replacing or is it possible to somehow tunnel over IPv4?

The easiest way right now is to run an ADSL modem/router in bridge mode - as long as it supports true bridging. I'm using a Draytek Vigor 120 - which is designed just as an ADSL modem and I'm running PPPoE on my existing Linux firewall box. However microtik routers are cheap and I'm told just work - with an ADSL modem.

There are some routers which are supporting it though - see the list at:

http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ipv6-cpe-survey-updated-september-2010/?searchterm=None

Gordon

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