[IP] more on Earthlink IPv6 in the Home

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: January 3, 2006 1:17:39 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Earthlink IPv6 in the Home
Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com

[Note:  This comment comes from a reader of Farber's IP list.  I have  
put together two messages from Suresh below.  DLH]

> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@hserus.net>
> Date: January 2, 2006 5:58:10 PM PST
> To: dave@farber.net
> Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Earthlink IPv6 in the Home
>
> David Farber wrote:
> > From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> >
> >     I want to call my readers attention to something neat that
> > Earthlink  R&D did.  They wanted to make it possible for more  
> > folks to
> > be able  to play with IPv6.  They came up with a neat hack that  
> > uses a
> > Linksys  WRT54G, that turns it into an IPv6 appliance/router.  More
> > details  can be found at: < http://www.research.earthlink.net/ipv6/>.
>
> This has been around for several months now, that I know of
>
> Its a tunneled v6 connection for your IP, that locks you into elnk ..
> you cant use the v6 part of it if you switch providers, I think
>
> Plenty of third party firmwares around since quite some time, that
> provide a v6 stack for the wrt54g .. and let you get a tunnel from
> tunnelbroker, sixxs.net etc.
>
> 	suresh

> Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
>
> >     How about some pointers to this information.  I'm sure that Dave
> > and  I would like to post such information as part of a follow up.
>
> Hit send too soon
>
> You have at least Openwrt and Sveasoft that I'm aware of ..
>
> Sveasoft has a few controversies re its open source licensing - please
> google for them and determine these for yourself. I dont use  
> sveasoft so
> haven't been tracking the license wars surrounding it.
>
> OpenWRT is available at http://openwrt.org/
>
> <http://www.757.org/~joat/wiki/index.php/ 
> IPv6_on_the_WRT54G_via_OpenWRT>
>
> This url should help you get started - needs some fairly simple  
> command
> line configuration, though. And of course caveat emptor because you're
> basically voiding any chance of cisco / linksys support for your  
> wrt54g
> if you install third party firmware on it. [Not that it matters for a
> $50 box you can pick up from Radio Shack]
>
> 	srs



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