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

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Tim Chown wrote:

> 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.

There is a special version of WRT-54G called WRT-54GL where you are 
"encouraged" to use Linux on your box. You can download the source from 
Linksys.

Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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