Per Jessen wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 19:02 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Hardware - does anyone want to recommend an ADSL router with IPv6 support? We've been using Zyxel for the last five years, and I've been looking at Zyxels 662, but I've grown a little wary of Zyxel (support in particular). A new router would require solid IPv6 support plus SNMP and syslog ditto.
afaicr,was the latest Fritz-router 7270 (both annex-A and annex-B) capable of doing ipv6 (download firmware from fritz)
I've been researching this quite a bit today, and have yet to find a manufacturer which explicitly lists IPv6 support. During some more googling, I came across a suggestion of simply running the ADSL router in bridge mode, and leaving all the IP handling to the next system, i.e. a firewall/gateway box. This sounds quite enticing, although it would mean making the firewall/gateway also do the ADSL authentication/login etc. I guess it would be kind of similar to the old days with pppd and all that.
This looks as if it might actually be the right approach. When the ADSL box/modem is running as a bridge, it doesn't care whether it's IPv4, -5 or -6, so that's one component out of the loop. The next step is to run pppd+pppoe on the gateway/firewall - AFAICT, it's pretty straight forward, the one thing I can't quite tell is whether pppd will support ipv4 and ipv6 at the same time. I also don't know if my provider supports that, but at least I was able to verify that they do support IPv6. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (6.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org