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Re: Testing the waters w/IPv6
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Wow! A sign of life on bclug!! :-)
I don't know a whole lot about IPv6, but IPv6 tunneling over IPv4, say through
toredo on a Windows box, can get you in big trouble fast. It's a superb way
of subverting just about every firewall you have.
Just noticed the time - gotta catch a bus, sorry!
-Randall
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:04:36PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2010, Ed Ackerman wrote:
>
> >
> > OK, I'll admit it, the hype about the imminent demise of available v4 address
> > space has me investigating v6. Besides it seems like a something fun to do,
> > sort of like the first time you were able to get news through a uucp
> > connection. If anyone goes back that far.
>
> I have not yet messed with V6, I do remember the uucp thing though. I also
> remember email addresses that consisted of bang paths. I will bet most here
> do not know what I am talking about. :-) Brings back nightmares, I mean
> memories of modems, serial ports and break out boxes. FWIW, I still have
> customers that are running dialup modems. Fortunately no uucp but dialup
> modems none the less.
>
> FWIW, I am waiting for VZ to offer V6 on FiOS, then I will get interested. I
> have V6 capable hardware but so far I do not see the advantage to switch. Maybe
> I am missing something but so I do not see it. I would be happy to be convinced
> though.
>
> > I have a working tunnel (6to4) running and I'm about to shift the endpoint to
> > my WAP from test (CentOS 5.4), and get a subnet. I'm using sixxs as my broker.
> >
> > Is there a group consensus about which is subjectively better, openwrt or
> > dd-wrt? The hardware will support either.
>
> I gave up on openwrt. I had 7 or 8 openwrt routers running in various places but
> I gave up because I had too many unresolvable problems with openwrt. Kamikaze
> was easy enough to get up and running but I had problems with iptables that
> went away by taking the same rules and loading them on a mini-itx based router
> running Centos 5. Asking questions about specific problems on the openwrt lists
> went unanswered. White Russian based routers did not have these problems but
> unfortunately White Russian has been unmaintained for several years.
>
> I have never messed with ddwrt so I cannot comment on that.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
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