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IPv6 for the Linksys WRT54G

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wishful-thinking dept.

AndersBrownworth writes "Earthlink Research and Development has released a firmware load for the Linksys WRT54G wireless access point that supports end-to-end IPv6. They suggest features such as extremely large address space, stateless autoconfiguration and low cost restoration of end-to-end addressability will revolutionize IP communications. It would be interesting if releases like this significantly boost the IPv6 take-up rate but as far as I know, Earthlink doesn't supply end-to-end IPv6 yet."

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  1. WRT54G is an awesome piece of hardware by LiNKz · · Score: 4, Informative

    With the firmware being so easily changed, you can run just about anything on it.

    I mean, I telnet into mine right now and review settings.. Which I love.

    There is a list of firmware at wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G

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  2. Wow. by krisp · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenWRT has had this for what, a year now?

    ipkg install kernel-ipv6
    modprobe ipv6
    ip tunnel add .... etc

    this isn't news

  3. Re:Does anyone support IPV6? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can get IPv6 tunnels (some free, although you need to prove you're a real person and send in ID stuff), so if that works with this new firmware, that's an option.

    As for ISPs, I've only actually seen one U.S. backbone company that actually claims to support IPv6, NTT (which has a lot of experience from Japan--IPv6 rollout in other countries with less IPv4 space/more mobile devices is farther along). Before end user ISPs can provide IPv6, we'll need the big backbone companies to provide IPv6 to their customers.

    Heck, I find it hard to even get IPv6 colocation service for hosting IPv6-accessible services. On the upside, Speakeasy has been planning on rolling out an IPv6 service, although I've heard they've run into delays getting their network up.

  4. Re:Does anyone support IPV6? by thanasakis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows does indeed support ipv6. Just typing ipv6 install at the command prompt just about does it if you want to enable it. It sets up your 6to4 tunnel too if you don't have native ipv6. Plus, windows are ahead because their ipsec stack does work. In linuxland, ipsec is supposed to be implemented by openswan, but last time I checked it was sort of incomplete and configuration was somewhat difficult.

    On the other hand, most pppd daemons in solaris,freebsd and linux support ipv6. Windows will support ipv6 ppp in longhorn.