Comcast Plans Residential IPv6 In 2010 → Re: Router Upgrades?

said by cdru:

Contradict yourself much?

said by hayabusa3303:

Priceless

said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:

I didn't contradict myself? I said I installed DD-WRT, unless of course you didn't read my post very carefully and only wanted to take me out of context.

said by PapaMidnight:

DD-WRT is a third-party firmware written for consumer level devices. Especially added with the fact that you're running it on a WRT54GL. So yeah, you contradicted yourself.

If you said something like m0n0wall or pfSense (Which I run) on an x86, then yeah, that's not consumer level.

And before you starting going goo-goo-gah-gah for DD-WRT, don't forget that many of the devices its meant for can't even use IPv6 since they've apparently decided those users with gimped FLASH roms aren't good enough to spend the time writing the extra bit of code to support IPv6. Even, at minimal, IPv6 Encapsulation is not supported.

said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:

If you want to be technical I did contradict myself, but I never I used the base firmware. I did say the stock firmware sucks. Did I not? Why would I say something sucks then turn around and use it? You are either reading too much into it or not enough.

Do you use a whole computer for your firewall? What are you trying to protect it against? DD-WRT has iptables which is a "good enough" firewall for most networks (it is a lot more powerful than you think).

And what are you talking about? I think you should rewrite that paragraph because to me it seems that your saying DD-WRT doesn't support IPv6 because of the "gimped roms".

said by PapaMidnight:

As a matter of fact, yes I do use an entire computer for a firewall / NAT Router / etc.
Intel Pentium III 733MHz
256MB SDRAM
3 Linksys 10/100 NICs
pfSense

I'd like to see a 216MHz Linksys Router with 16MB of RAM stand up to that... I get going good and that DD-WRT router will be crippled in mere seconds.

As soon as I get around to it, I'm going to get some RB44G's (»www.routerboard.com/rb44.html).

And I was quite clear about my statement. Most of the devices DD-WRT has been ported to do not support any version of DD-WRT above Micro and are incapable of IPv6 as the developers do not code for it. They have not offered IPv6 Encapsulation either (look up IPv6 Tunnel Brokers).

So users with WRT54Gv5-8.2 and the newer, slim, black WRT54Gs have no prospects of IPv6, unless DD-WRT developers see fit to code support for it into their "Micro" distribution. This point is not limited merely to the WRT54G line either as most devices "supported" ( »www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/ ··· are.html ) by DD-WRT only support the "Micro" or "Mini" distributions. Neither of which, as established, supports IPv6.

said by djdanska:

As long as it has a broadcom chip in it, your usually good. My wrt160n v2 doesn't, and can't run dd-wrt. The v1 model does though. Doesn't say v1 or v2 on the box, otherwise i wouldn't have not bought it.

said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:

Yeah I think after they realized that people started to flash the router with third party firmware (and possibly after Cisco bought them out) I don't see the version number on the outside. Though, you can always look up UPC code before hand and compare. This one reason why I made the blanket statement of only buying a WRT54GL because both versions can support any version of DD-WRT. This way I don't have to specifically hunt down a version.