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As I mentioned recently, this server is now available over both ipv4 and ipv6.

The next logical step was to get ipv6 of some kind working at home.

Unfortunately my isp isn't offering ipv6 (yet!), so I had two options:

1. Setup complicated networking stuff to get some of our ipv6 allocation to appear at home
2. Get an ipv6 tunnel from Sixxs

Option 1 might have been possible, but it would have involved bribing one of our network engineers to do it in his spare time, as I don't have the technical knowledge to pull it off

Option 2, therefore, was the one I chose.

I've been running OpenWRT on my linksys wrt54g for some time, so the howto on their site was one of my first ports of call.

Once I got my ipv6 tunnel from Sixxs I was able to use ping6 to verify my connection was working over ipv6 from the linksys.

Unfortunately I cannot get any form of ipv6 from my desktop! All I get are unhelpful messages about there being no routes :(

UPDATE: Jeroen from Sixxs and a couple of other people were extremely helpful and I finally got it working.

Running the following on the openwrt seems to have fixed the issue:
ip -6 ro add 2000::/3 dev <tunnel>

where <tunnel> is the interface for your tunnel

I also had to rejig a small bit of my config, as I'd put in /48 instead of /64

It's all working nicely now, so my next minor challenge is to get my Mac to use the ipv6 assignment on the network here.

As I work for a hosting company that monitors a LOT of network traffic data it's only natural that my own DSL line is being "watched" (it makes talking to our ISP a lot more interesting!) If you look at the screenshot below you will see a very big difference in the connection from around lunchtime today: So what changed? The only thing that changed was the firmware on the Linksys WRT54G. Nothing else has changed in my setup. I'm not complaining, but the difference is startling. If only I had known :)

As I mentioned before, I have been using a number of different linux firmware versions on my LinkSys WRT54G. For the last few weeks I was using SveaSoft's firmware, as the previous firmware had caused me headaches. The Sveasoft solution worked quite well, but I had some crazy routing issues which left me rather confused. It was as if certain blocks of the internet simply ceased to exist! In any case I decided to dump SveaSoft for OpenWRT. The routing issues seem to have vanished and I can visit sites that were "banned" again!! Hopefully the connection issues will also have been resolved, though I won't know for sure for a few hours.

I use a linksys WRT54G on my home network. It was running the standard Linksys firmware at one point, but I've been running a variety of Linux variants on it over the last few months. This evening, while looking for information on OpenWRT I stumbled across HotSpotSystem.com. While several of the alternative firmwares offer hotspot functionality this is the first one I've come across that offers a builtin revenue stream. I'm not sure how the revenue share works with the commercial offerings from Bitbuzz, Eircom, BT etc., but this alternative does look very appealing. Pity I don't live somewhere where I could actually make use of it :)