That answer is not an option. You cannot support 100 clients this summer bringing their laptops into the RV park and asking them all to disable the IPv6. It takes 10 exact clicks to get to the location to disable those settings. And that may vary depending on the configuration and UAC level. I am not familiar with Monowall. But they have to be coming up with an answer to this or they will have lots of other issues with IPv6. Yes Microsoft has screwed up but we as providers have to find solutions that does not affect the clients equipment and requires as little changes on their part as possible. Sounds like to me that you need to find a cheap vista laptop with vista and do testing when you have access to Monowall support. I just found that MoNowall is a FreeBSD Firewall. Good luck with that.
Steve Barnes RCWiFi Wireless Internet Service -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Miller Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:56 AM To: [email protected]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monowall and Microsoft Vista machines Since I'm not a computer guy, how does one disable the IPv6 stack on the Vista machine? ----- Original Message ---- From: Faisal Imtiaz <[email protected]> To: Joe Miller <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:44:13 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Monowall and Microsoft Vista machines We disable the IPv6 stack on the Vista Box. (the IPv6 stack causes other problems, including connecting with Dialup). Faisal Imtiaz Computer Office Solutions Inc. /SnappyDSL.net Ph: (305) 663-5518 x 232 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monowall and Microsoft Vista machines I do not have problems with wired connections, it actually works for the most part. Are you disabling the IPv6 stack in the Vista machine, or in Monowall? ----- Original Message ---- From: Faisal Imtiaz <[email protected]> To: Joe Miller <[email protected]>; WISPA General List <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:34:33 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Monowall and Microsoft Vista machines Curious. Have u tried to disable the IPv6 stack in Vista ? We are using monowall on wired networks with Vista, once the IPv6 stack is disabled, have not seen any issues with DHCP. Regards Faisal Imtiaz -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Miller Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:17 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monowall and Microsoft Vista machines Yes I do, they are RV Parks. They are great money makers, but this Vista issue is getting out of hand. ----- Original Message ---- From: RickG <[email protected]> To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:27:44 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monowall and Microsoft Vista machines Joe, I've seen Vista have issues connecting with all kinds of access points. I usually have the customer get a different router and it works. Which takes me to a question: Why do you have customers connecting laptops directly to you? Do you run a hotspot? -RickG On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Joe Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm having a hell of a time with Vista machines connecting to my > Monowall router. I found this regarding Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers, and gives the fix for the computer.. HOW MANY PEOPLE are knowledgable enough with Vista to fix there own machine? >support.microsoft.com/default.as...33/en-us and Monowall's latest version: > > >m0n0.ch/wall/ "04/11/2009 - m0n0wall 1.3b16 released This beta > release improves IPv6 support (by providing more control over RAs, > adding DHCPv6, allowing IPv6 DNS servers, enabling IPv6 webGUI access, etc.), adds initial basic support for secondary IP addresses, patches a kernel security issue and adds support for Broadcom BCM5722 NICs." > > Has anyone dealt with this before? Does anyone know how to make Vista > work on their Monowall routers without having to assign a static address on the Vista machine? This is starting to become a pain in the a$$. 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