Re: IPv6, dynamic IP and WRT54

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:21:42AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I thought it would be fun to play with IPv6 and started 
> investigating how to turn it on.  Now I know why no one is using 
> it.  You have to _really_ want to use it to figure out how to 
> connect the dots.

At the current time, yes.  But if/when it becomes desirable by the Powers
That Be (mainly ISPs and router vendors), it will become easier.

> 1.  OS support (I am 50% sucessfuly on getting this installed on my 
> XP boxes, when I tried to install the protocol on one of the boxes, 
> I got an odd and useless error message)

I haven't setup IPv6 on XP in quite a long time but I don't recall any
problems at all.  IIRC it was just a network preferences selection.  Note
that IPv6 is enabled by default in just about every other major OS.

> 2.  Router support
> 3.  ISP support or use of a tunnel.

This is where the Powers That Be come in.  It will be prohibitively
difficult for all but the hardcore users to setup IPv6 until the ISPs
support IPv6 routing (either natively or via their own tunnel).

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