Comcast Prepares For IPv6 Customer Trials > Where'd you guys learn about IPv6?

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Re: Where'd you guys learn about IPv6?

I've done something similar, I've enable IPv6 (and IPv4 also, dual stack) on my WRT54G's (OpenWRT x2), my servers and a couple of Windows machines. I'm working on getting my WGT634U (OpenWRT) setup with IPv6. So far the IPv6 stack seems to work better than the IPv4 stack (it's a little bit faster, lower latency) on my Linux servers and WAPs. So far I haven't really done much DHCP with IPv6 but I'll need that too. I bought 2 IPv6 books but gave up on buying more books because the RFCs are changing at such a fast rate. But the books were still a good starting point. Basically, start using the technology, search the internet (but don't trust the information to be current or right) and make mistakes. You'll learn best by doing and making mistakes.

So far I don't have the resources to run a firewall on my OpenWRT/Firewall boxes (only 16M of RAM on the WRT54G boxes) so no open Internet IPv6 at this time. I hope to resolve that this weekend when I tear apart my WGT634U router and install the latest and greatest OpenWRT software. Then it's time to build the proper ip6tables for the firewall. Worse comes to worse I can take an embedded x86 and put OpenWRT on it but I'd rather save that box for something else.

I've been keeping my notes on my Home IPv6 Networking page. Understand that these are just my notes and may be unintelligible. I also need to update it with the Comcast latest information
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Neil Cherry
Linux Home Automation
Linux HA Blog
Author: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

It's a great page, thanks for making it! It's starting to make sense to me now...