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Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 08:24:33 -0400
On Jul 5, 2015, at 5:32 AM, William Waites <wwaites () tardis ed ac uk> wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 06:13:52 +0000, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> said:In fact, I show just how to do this using a $99 Apple Airport Express in my three-hour online course “Build your own IPv6 Lab”An anectode about this, maybe out of date, maybe not. I was helping my friend who likes Apple things connect to the local community network. He wanted to use an Airport as his home gateway rather than the router that we normally use. Turns out these things can *only* do IPv6 with tunnels and cannot do IPv6 on PPPoE. Go figure. So there is not exactly a clear path to native IPv6 for your lab this way.
The airport devices/airport express class are not that good of devices as the embedded software doesn’t handle a lot of traffic or long uptime well. Most devices that are over 3 years old likely are not suitable for IPv6 testing aside from understanding what is broken. Keep in mind that software on a CPE device may be 6 months out of date by the time it comes out of a container stateside. Expecting people to use tunnels, etc doesn’t really scale properly. I do wish that I could get static IPv6 prefixes along with my static IPv4 at home, but having IPv6 at all took precedence. - Jared
Current thread:
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion, (continued)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Josh Moore (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mel Beckman (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Josh Moore (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Nick Ellermann (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Sander Steffann (Jul 06)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mel Beckman (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mel Beckman (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Dave Taht (Jul 06)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Jared Mauch (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mel Beckman (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Nicholas Suan (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 05)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Israel G. Lugo (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mark Andrews (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Israel G. Lugo (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mel Beckman (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 08)