On 10/02/11 09:48 PM, Jeremy wrote: > On 11-02-10 09:43 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:21:17PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: >>> Hi Hendrik >>> What about all the routers out there? Would not the ISP do the >>> translation from ipv6 to ipv4 for you? And yes, you should still have >>> your static ip address. >> >> That would have been nice. But I gather some of the higher-level >> protocols are different, using pecific features of IPv6, and protocol >> translation may not be trivial. That said, it's probably somewhat >> feasible to so a somewhat decent job. The basic problem is that the >> IPv6 inventors had not planned interoperability between IPv4 and >> IPv6. They had some idea that everyone would gradually acquire >> dual-stack systems that could operate in both modes. But in real-life >> terms, that hasn't happened. Oh, countries who were originally >> allocated a critical shortage of class A networks have already gone and >> done this because they had to. But North America is a holdout. >> And the annoying thing is that most current OS's, such as Windows, OS/X >> Macs, Linuxes already are IPv6-capable. It's the ISPs that are the >> bottleneck. >> >> I actually don't know which routers do IPv6 and which don't. I suspect >> in any case that it's just a firmware change. If the manufacturer still >> suupports that router model, anyway. Otherwise firmware might be hard >> to come by. >> >> -- hendrik > > OpenWRT can do this, and the routers I mentioned a few months back > (netgear WNDR3700 and another linux based model) could handle quite alot > of traffic load. These routers already run a modified openwrt firmware. > > I have a few of them, they are very nice and fun, USB port too ;)
Teksavvy has a modified Tomato firmware for Linksys routers that does both multilink ppp (bypasses Bell's throttling) and IPv6. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
