Work’s never been a problem because we’re literally the first drop out of the substation. During Katrina we lost power for an hour, after Gustav it took a day to get the power back - but at home it took 10 days. I don’t know how COX does in these conditions but certainly DSL stayed up in previous seasons much longer than my kW UPS. Looking ahead, I guess we’ll all be comparing notes at the end of this year. From: General [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Stokes Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6 I’ve done the low power stuff, but more for no-moving-parts/fans than for lack-of-utility-power. By this point for the businesses it’s not a lot of point in having Internet connectivity if the rest of the place can’t run. The places I have to deal with either close or have a generator. At home, an iPhone takes care of enough emergency connectivity or I’ll go somewhere with power and connectivity if I need it on the rare occasions when I’m out of power. There’s also no guaranty that either Cox or AT&T U-Verse has enough local power to wait out more than a couple of hours in their local gear during a local utility failure. That was one of the reasons for a long time I stuck with DSL pre-VDSL2. On Jan 25, 2016, at 9:15 AM, Edmund Cramp <[email protected]> wrote: After Katrina I got very interested in building a system that would stay up as long as possible - my current setup probably pulls about 12W including built-in Wi-Fi. From: General [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Stokes Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 9:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6 $500 pays a lot of electricity when you can probably find a free P3 or P4 with power stepping for free. You don't have to use a hard drive.
-- Keith Stokes On Jan 25, 2016, at 8:45 AM, Shannon Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: Yeah. I was looking at those. But, $500 seems a bit steep for a home router. I can roll my own atom system for less. On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Edmund Cramp <[email protected]> wrote: ➢ I'd like to go to a lower power system some day. https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#sg-2440 - pulls 7W at idle with 4 network interfaces - in an emergency you could run it off AA batteries. From: General [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shannon Roddy Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 7:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6 Glad it's working... been a while since I looked at pfsense. Forgot it was based on FreeBSD. I might have to consider it next time I change my router out... I'd like to go to a lower power system some day. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Keith Stokes <[email protected]> wrote: Color me embarrassed. All these open browser windows for configuring/testing IPv6 have been open for months and I hadn't done anything in awhile. Google-Foo served up this link from back in November when I tried again: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102339.0 Follow directions, add an outbound IPv6 LAN-->WAN outbound rule and here I am: Good news! Your current configuration will continue to work as web sites enable IPv6. Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have IPv6 Internet access. Your readiness score 10/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 only On 1/24/2016 7:24 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote: I'm on Comcast... YMMV. I have a debian box that is running as my router. I couldn't get v6 to work with comcast with the ISC client. I had to install the wide-dhcpv6-client package and go from there. That was for the WAN connection. Google around for the wide dhcp package and there are some howto docs out there. I had to cobble together some scripts to get it all to work. For the internal network, I chose to support auto config so that all my devices would work... so, I'm running radvd on the internal interface of my debian router. Comcast supposedly will delegate larger than a /64, but I gave up on getting that to work. Seemed like the route wasn't getting set on their end. I ran into a number of issues getting it set up... and it's a bit hazy now because it's been a while and I didn't keep good notes. But, if you need further info, I can look on my running system and let you know how I have things here. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Keith Stokes <[email protected]> wrote: Has anyone worked with Cox Residential in BR/Laf/NO on IPv6? Support told me a few weeks ago it's been deployed in our area. I've learned that I get the best tech support from them on Sunday so today I hit them up in web chat for instructions or methods they use. Anything to get me started. They want me to call their Home Networking Group. Since I'd rather pull out my fingernails than try to explain how I'm running a PfSense box with static and dynamic VPNs, a handful of creative rules, Macs, Linux (see there's a link in here somewhere to the list) and Windows, plus everything else I can think of to make life harder for them, I'm hoping someone else has done this before and is willing to share. -- Keith Stokes _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Keith Stokes _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Keith Stokes
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