Re: Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?
Stephen Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to set up IPv6 on my home network, and before I do so, I was wondering if I could solicit recommendations on an inexpensive hub or switch that would work for that purpose? I've got a router, so that's covered. Thoughts? Others had mentioned using the Linksys WRT54G. I'm using the firmware for that available through Earthlink's experimental IPv6 in the Home project http://www.research.earthlink.net/ipv6/, and it's been working just fine for me. -- Peter C. - The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe users to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?
Hi all, I want to set up IPv6 on my home network, and before I do so, I was wondering if I could solicit recommendations on an inexpensive hub or switch that would work for that purpose? I've got a router, so that's covered. Thoughts? Thanks! -- Stephen. - The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe users to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 01:44 -0400, Stephen Fulton wrote: Hi all, I want to set up IPv6 on my home network, and before I do so, I was wondering if I could solicit recommendations on an inexpensive hub or switch that would work for that purpose? I've got a router, so that's covered. Thoughts? The router, which is Layer 3, is most likely the problem as that thing should support IPv6. Switches are Layer 2, and thus only cover Ethernet and don't care about IPv4 or IPv6. Also as you are saying 'router', I guess you actually mean a NAT gateway and not a real router, aka something that routes packets. Be aware that when it is a NAT you will have to put it in DMZ mode when you want to tunnel proto-41 packets over it to a machine behind the NAT. In any case, Linksys WRT's come to mind, especially when you load them up with DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com) or OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org), these make them capable of doing IPv6 and even setting up a tunnel to any of the various free (that is gratuit) IPv6 providers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Broker for a long list of the latter. The advantage of the WRT's is that they can act as routers while they are also switches, so especially for the power-users that is very nice. Oh and accidentitally they do wireless ;) Greets, Jeroen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:01:06PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: The router, which is Layer 3, is most likely the problem as that thing should support IPv6. Switches are Layer 2, and thus only cover Ethernet and don't care about IPv4 or IPv6. For a home network, any switch should do. Were you buying for an Enterprise, then features such as MLD snooping may be useful to you. In any case, Linksys WRT's come to mind, especially when you load them up with DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com) or OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org), these make them capable of doing IPv6 and even setting up a tunnel to any of the various free (that is gratuit) IPv6 providers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Broker for a long list of the latter. Beware the very latest WRT-54G's use some new OS that isn't customisable via the OpenWRT project. You can check via the serial numbers which will work and which won't. -- Tim/::1 - The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe users to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Tim Chown wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:01:06PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: The router, which is Layer 3, is most likely the problem as that thing should support IPv6. Switches are Layer 2, and thus only cover Ethernet and don't care about IPv4 or IPv6. For a home network, any switch should do. Were you buying for an Enterprise, then features such as MLD snooping may be useful to you. In any case, Linksys WRT's come to mind, especially when you load them up with DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com) or OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org), these make them capable of doing IPv6 and even setting up a tunnel to any of the various free (that is gratuit) IPv6 providers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Broker for a long list of the latter. Beware the very latest WRT-54G's use some new OS that isn't customisable via the OpenWRT project. You can check via the serial numbers which will work and which won't. There is a special version of WRT-54G called WRT-54GL where you are encouraged to use Linux on your box. You can download the source from Linksys. Regards, Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY Key 00F9AF98: 8645 1312 D249 471B DBAE 21A2 9F52 0D1F 00F9 AF98 -- Tim/::1 - The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe users to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe users to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
