Prices for those second hand CISCOs is actually impressive. Considering that the amount of minimal "hacking", I would consider it. £25 is a steal even though second hand.
This means that we currently have two options with regards to routers which are capable of IPv6 connectivity with SiXXS: Cisco 827, 83x and 87x gear for who has a a fixed IPv4 and dd-wrt/openwrt for who has a dynamic IPv4 (as well as fixed IPv4) I took the time to list a couple of items off eBay to give an idea to people: Cisco 827H £19.99 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CISCO-827H-ACCESS-ROUTER-/200416630584?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ea9c31738#ht_1076wt_907 Cisco 831 £30 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cisco-831-Ethernet-Cable-Router-Power-Supply-/270690295325?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f06661e1d#ht_500wt_1156 Cisco 837 £15 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cisco-837-Series-Router-/120668303913?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1c18643229#ht_500wt_1156 Cisco 837-K9 £15 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cisco-837-K9-Wired-ADSL-Router-CCNA-CCNP-LAB-857-877-/270690324833?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f06669161#ht_1399wt_1141 The Cisco 87x series are then more than £125 The 827 and 83x compare very well with the next best offering which would be dd-wrt. These are new from Hong Kong. Free postage and are the cheapest I found. *Wireless 802.11B/G Router Pre-installed DD-WRT £25* http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Wireless-G-802-11G-WiFi-Network-DD-WRT-DDWRT-Router-/280506011924?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item414f761114#ht_4140wt_1141 . Someone had posted something related to Mikrotik RouterOS units. I couldn't find anything on eBay. If you can follow it up with some links it would be great. But basically, these are the prices we are talking about and I think they are well within the reach of a Joe Average let alone power users like us :) -- Raphael On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:11 PM, markpacebal...@gmail.com < markpacebal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > nice meeting you this morning. after talking this morning I looked at the > sixxs.net website and this is what i found: > > A tunnel from an end user to a sixxs host/pop/tunnel broker (wherever that > is located) for IPv6 connectivity can be done in two ways: > > 1. from a PC of sorts using a piece of open source software called AICCU > which is available for multiple os *nix, windows etc.... > > 2. Using a router to setup a tunnel (no AICCU required, router has -would > need to have- necessary intelligence) > > > I seem to understand that AICCU will work with a dynamic IPv4 IP address > (ie it negotiates tunnel ips on setup), while the second router option is a > manual configuration and needs to know the IPv4 address at both ends to > setup the tunnel. This means that either a static v4 address is needed from > your ISP, or else you'd need to so some reconfiguration on your tunnel and > router whenever your IPv4 address changes in order to bring up the tunnel > again. > > If youre ok with the static IPv4 issue, I see the router option as more > flexible for obvious reasons, easier to distribute connectivity to multiple > devices, can be used for other things, etc... > > http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Routers in fact confirm that the Cisco 827, 83x > and 87x are suitable as we saw this morning and config is about 5 or so > lines, not rocket science for a tecchie, and would "joe in the street" even > bother about v6 if he doesnt even know that v4 exists ? > > Prices from ebay seem cheap, just need to be sure that they have the > correct version of IOS on them as described in the sixxs wiki so they > support v6 > > > > cheers > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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