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

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:01:06PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
> The router, which is Layer 3, is most likely the problem as that thing
> should support IPv6. Switches are Layer 2, and thus only cover Ethernet
> and don't care about IPv4 or IPv6.

For a home network, any switch should do.  Were you buying for an 
Enterprise, then features such as MLD snooping may be useful to you.

> In any case, Linksys WRT's come to mind, especially when you load them
> up with DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com) or OpenWRT
> (http://www.openwrt.org), these make them capable of doing IPv6 and even
> setting up a tunnel to any of the various free (that is gratuit) IPv6
> providers.
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Broker for a long list of the
> latter.

Beware the very latest WRT-54G's use some new OS that isn't customisable
via the OpenWRT project.   You can check via the serial numbers which will
work and which won't.

-- 
Tim/::1


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