RE: Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?

The good news is pretty much any layer 2 switch or hub will work,
as the differences in IPv4 and IPv6 are invisible to them. Existing
NICs and cables work fine too. Pretty much everything else must
be IPv6 aware. We have used a wide variety of switches with no
problems, e.g. D-Link 24 and 48 port, 10/100 and 10/100/1000. Even
an old HP ProCurve (10 years old) works with no issues.
 
It is possible some really fancy "layer 3 switches" may not work,
depending on design.
 
Note that routers and firewalls that support dual stack can easily
be built with an old PC and open source software (Linux will work,
I prefer FreeBSD - their IPv6 stack is much further along, and the
pf firewall is great for dual stack). 
 
If direct IPv6 service is not available to you (hard to find in US now),
you can get tunneled service today from Hurricane Electric, NTTA,
or other sources. Cost about $200 a month, and will work over ANY
existing IPv4 service. Easy to set up tunnel endpoints in an open
source based router and some hardware routers. One issue is lack
of dual stack reverse FTP proxy - we upgraded the one for FreeBSD
to dual stack and will be glad to share with you. If you can do FTP
with old IPv4 only sites, but not at ftp.freebsd.org (that is dual stack),
you probably have run into this problem. 
 
Be sure your router supports v6 router advertisements (RA), and
ideally can relay a /48 prefix from ISP to one or more internal /64
subnets (e.g. main / dmz / test / etc). 
 
We've been running a dual stack production network for about 18
months - the water is fine - come on in. Highly recommend Marc
Blanchet's "Migrating to IPv6" book for real world details and actual
configuration info. 
 
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Stephen Fulton
Sent: Mon 7/10/2006 1:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Inexpensive hub/switch for testing home IPv6 network?



Hi all,

I want to set up IPv6 on my home network, and before I do so, I was
wondering if I could solicit recommendations on an inexpensive hub or
switch that would work for that purpose?  I've got a router, so that's
covered.  Thoughts?

Thanks!

-- Stephen.
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