Comcast's IPv6 CPE selection

[Frank Bulk]

Ack on that -- hopefully it can be grandparent ready in a few months.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Barton [mailto:dougb at dougbarton.us] 
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:10 PM
To: frnkblk at iname.com
Cc: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
Subject: Re: Comcast's IPv6 CPE selection

On 04/24/10 18:50, Frank Bulk wrote:
> And note the "[5]" behind IPv6 feature that says "Apparently, IPv6-related
> features DO NOT work by default in DD-WRT v24. See IPv6 on v24.", and
> clicking throught "IPv6 on v24" I see all kinds of "insmod" commands.

The v24 firmwares are all getting pretty long in the tooth, and v26 is
the recommended version on all routers that support it (which is most of
the ones that have been manufactured in the last 5 years or so).

And if you read the forum post I included the link to you can see that
there IS a bit of manual configuration that has to be done, but unlike
in the past where you had to create numerous boot scripts, install
packages by hand, ssh into the router, etc. etc.[1] modern versions of
dd-wrt (except for the very smallest firmwares) already include
everything you need, and allow you to configure the two things you need
to get IPv6 working (radvd and the startup commands for the tunnel) from
the gui.

I'm not saying I'd turn my grandfather loose on this, rather that a
reasonably capable tech-oriented person could go from stock linksys
firmware to having their router as a tunnel endpoint and RA on their
local network in a few hours ... maybe a little more if their
forum/wiki/google search fu is not up to par.


hth,

Doug

[1] Compare http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=106.0

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