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Fri, 23 Mar 2012
IPv6: The future is now!
I've been intrigued and learning about IPv6 for somewhat over a year now, and
I started implementing and using it on my home LAN for some six months ago
When I first started to implement it, I discovered that the Linksys
WRT610n wireless router I was using as the network's main router has a
half-assed implementation of a IPv6 tunnel. Normally I wouldn't print
anything approaching such profanity on my web site, but it is the perfect
description of what Linksys (Cisco) did: They made the router firmware
so that a 6to4 tunnel is enabled, but they didn't document it, nor did they
give the user the option of disabling it as part of the normal web interface.
In my opinion, that merits the "half-assed" moniker.
Fortunately, someone else was equally ticked off by this, and had acquired
the GPL sources to the router,
and
discovered an undocumented page that can be used to disable it. And
just in case that site ever goes down, here's the fix in a
nutshell: Access the hidden menu page (http://your_router's_ip/System.asp)
and set the
Vista Premium option to
Disable.
In light of this crap, and because I had bought a Mikrotik RB750G router
with which I was now familiar, I made two recent changes to my home
network: 1) I now use the RB750G as the network's main router, and 2) I
configured it to host my IPv6 tunnel. I'll be giving a very brief
"HowTo" talk about configuring the tunnel on it at the TriLUG meeting
next month, and I've posted the "slides"
here.
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