New Router Suggestions

[Daniel Hagerty]

John Abreau <abreauj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Is that just the stok Linksys firmware? I would hope that DD-WRT or Tomato
> would support IPv6.

# ifconfig eth0.9
eth0.9    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:17:BE:F0:0D  
          inet addr:10.12.0.10  Bcast:10.12.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::212:17ff:febe:food/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2002:425c:49d9:9:212:17ff:febe:food/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: 2001:470:8917:9:212:17ff:febe:food/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:58094 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:36942 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:6157169 (5.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2917217 (2.7 MiB)
# ping6 www.arin.net
PING www.arin.net (2001:500:4:13::81): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:500:4:13::81: seq=0 ttl=56 time=35.553 ms
64 bytes from 2001:500:4:13::81: seq=1 ttl=56 time=36.529 ms

--- www.arin.net ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 35.553/36.041/36.529 ms

    Some addresses changed to hide low horsepower boxes.  This is a
linksys wrt54gs v2.0 or so running open-wrt.

    Note that I don't use the box to route anything, but it seems to
minimally work for itself; the admin session above is over v6.