Essentially, this is how it works:
Using our customized firmware, at boot time the WRT54G will create an IPSEC tunnel to a router in our lab. We aren't using IPSEC for encryption, just for authenticating the session (using IPSEC "Authenticated Header" mode). Once the IPSEC tunnel is established, the WRT54G then uses DHCPv6 to get the /64 network prefix allocated to it over the IPSEC tunnel. The WRT54G then advertises that prefix on the local LAN (both wired and wireless) and acts as an IPv6 router for all nodes on the LAN.
For more information, refer to:
http://www.research.earthlink.net/ipv6/
Strictly speaking this may be somewhat off-topic for this mailing list, but I thought some folks on this list might find this of interest.
-- Tim Bosserman EarthLink R&D _______________________________________________ 6bone mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/6bone
