[ale] broadband ISP

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 14:52 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 03/19/2014 02:20 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > The irony is that, if your firmware doesn't support it yet, you can set
> > it up for yourself using standard SIT (Six In Tunnel - IP protocol 41)
> > tunnels to tunnel brokers like Hurricane Electric, GogoSix, Occaid, or
> > SixXs very easily.
> >
> > If you're firmware DOES support it, they don't yet offer it but the new
> > firmware breaks IP protocol 41 which breaks the simple SIT tunnels and
> > you have to resort to something else.
> >
> > Lovely...  If they don't support it, you can get it easy.  If they
> > support it, they break shit but still won't provide it.
> >
> > I resorted to IPSec tunnels (IP protocols 50/51) to my personal tunnel
> > anchor at Xilogix (now Colobox) where I anchor connections to HE and
> > Occaid.

> I setup HE profile years ago, in "anticipation" of IPv6 taking over..
> didn't happen. It has been a few years since I messed with it.

On one said IPv6 would take over.  Still...  It was over a decade ago
that I turned off the keep-alives on my tunnels because IPv6 DNS, NTP,
and SMTP traffic was more than enough to keep the tunnels up.  Says
something right there...  Taking over?  No.  There to use?  Yes.

Mike
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