I just read
http://www.slackwerks.com/the-crew/arete/soekris/soekris.htmlAnd I am very impressed. I can get a Soekris net4511, for about $170, and a vpn1211 for about $70 and a CF card for about $50, all told, $300 for the hardware and it comes with a nifty looking box from Soekris. This is going to be with an extra twist from me because I want to install 6to4 support. I'll tell you why in a minute ;-)
OK, so first of all this slackwerks HOWTO is going to get me up and running with a totally secure IPSec based WiFi network. That's just cool. Instead of all this WEP/WPA/802.1x stuff I will have real end-to-end encryption running between me and my internet gateway (did I mention this magic box is going to be my gateway?). Then I set up IPv4 NAT on the soekris, and an IPv6 firewall as well, so it's now the ultimate gateway box. And, I set up 6to4 on the gateway, and configure my powerbook running OS X with ipv6. I've got a free ethernet port on the soekris to connect up local wired computers, and the wireless ethernet interface for my powerbook. What next?
Now I pull up ohPhoneX, an implementation of ohphone from the OpenH323 group which just happens to support IPv6. Since my powerbook is running over 6to4 it's not behind a NAT in IPv6, so I can send my overseas relatives and friends my powerbook's IPv6 address and they can directly connect to me. No more NAT nastiness, messing around with the DMZ, or whatever, it's a direct connection straight into my powerbook's globally addressable 6to4 address. Now I'm doing internet telephony, for free, over a wireless interface, and it's all totally autoconfigure.
It would be very sweet if lots of people got up and running with a gateway like this :-) Forget about Free World Dialup. End-to-end connectivity is the real deal. Even though most of the internet isn't running IPv6 yet, we can all use this setup (or a similar one) to build out the next-generation internet :-)
simon
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