[ale] IPv6 for the Linksys WRT54G

[Randal Jarrett K4RSJ]

Mike, thanks for the info!

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 19:42 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:27 -0400, Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) wrote:
> > >From /.
> > 
> > Hardware: IPv6 for the Linksys WRT54G	
> > 
> > 	
> > Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday May 26, @06:01PM
> > 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."
> 
> 	I've know about this for a couple of weeks.  We've had some discussion
> over it in the North American v6 Task Force (NAv6TF).  It's actually
> somewhat of a snoozer.  OpenWRT and Sveasoft have had IPv6 for some time
> now.  I think there are a couple others as well.  Friend of mine, Gene
> Cronk of NAv6TF and IPv6Forum, has been working on some versions.
> 
> 	What's different about this is that the Earthlink firmware has a built
> in tunnel configuration to link you back to one of their tunnel anchors
> in their R&D area.  Plus it's based on the LinkSys base firmware (which
> is Linux based - source available).
> 
> 	As of right now, there are a number of convenient sources for Global
> IPv6 and IPv6 allocations...
> 
> Native:
> 
> 	Sprint
> 		You've got to really dig for the info, though, and it may be tunneled.
> 
> 	MCI
> 
> 	Verio
> 		$300 a month add on
> 
> 
> Tunneled (all free, including OCCAID):
> 
> 	Sprint
> 
> 	Hurricane Electric
> 		6over4 (no NAT) - North America and Australia
> 		Free /64 on registration.
> 		Free /48 available on request
> 		R/O BGP available
> 		NO IRC!
> 		NO anonymous tunnels
> 
> 	FreeNet6
> 		tsp - North America
> 		NAT friendly
> 		Free /48
> 		Anonymous tunnels available
> 		Anonymous tunnels tracked by IPv4 endpoint
> 
> 	SixXS
> 		aiccu/ayiya - Europe - very limited for North America
> 		NAT friendly 
> 		(you have to ask nice).
> 		Curious "points" system for access and privs
> 		Points awarded for tunnel up-time
> 		/48 available with enough points
> 		No anonymous
> 
> 	OCCAID
> 		High speed only, colo preferred.
> 		BGP4+ peering for single gateway tunnels or give them access to your
> FreeBSD box and you become a part of their multigateway cloud with
> nearest gateway best effort routing to the IPv6 backbone.
> 		IRC available
> 		No anonymous tunnels
> 		AUP prohibiting most maloderous activities (spam, botnets, IRC
> zombies, etc, etc...)
>  
> 
> 	I'm currently have accounts with Hurricane Electric, FreeNet6, and
> SixXS and can speak highly of all three.  I just found out about OCCAID
> a couple of weeks ago and I'm getting ready to set up a peering
> connection with them.  Haven't found out if I can get that Sprint to
> provide IPv6 to my Sprint cellphone yet (and I'm not sure they would
> appreciate me asking).
> 
> 	Mike
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