Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

Mark Newton newton at internode.com.au
Thu Dec 3 05:25:49 UTC 2009


On 03/12/2009, at 3:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

>>> You're correct, out of the box there aren't many.  The first couple that come to mind are the Apple Airport Express and Airport Extreme, but I don't believe Linksys/Netgear/etc. have support out of the box.
>> 
>> The Apple products do 6to4 out of the box, but don't support v6 natively.
>> 
> What do you mean they don't support v6 native?
> I am running my Time Capsule in v6 native.

Okay, let me rephrase that.

I can't run a PPPoE client on an Airport Express which will
give me native dual-stack Internet access.

Yes, I can talk to the Airport Express with v6, no debate there.
And yes, if it sees an RA message it'll configure itself with the 
appropriate prefix EUI64 itself an address.

But unless there's some configuration knob I haven't found, off-LAN
v6 access requires either some other v6-capable CPE to act as the
interface to the service provider, or it runs over 6to4.

> True none of the apple products support DHCPv6. I think there is some hope Apple will come around on this issue.

Currently the Snow Leopard kernel panics if you turn on the 
net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv sysctl and start a PPPoE session which
negotiates IP6CP.

(I have a bug open with them, and I'm confident that it'll be fixed...
but c'mon...!)


  - mark

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