Hi, nice meeting you this morning. after talking this morning I looked at the sixxs.net website and this is what i found:
A tunnel from an end user to a sixxs host/pop/tunnel broker (wherever that is located) for IPv6 connectivity can be done in two ways: 1. from a PC of sorts using a piece of open source software called AICCU which is available for multiple os *nix, windows etc.... 2. Using a router to setup a tunnel (no AICCU required, router has -would need to have- necessary intelligence) I seem to understand that AICCU will work with a dynamic IPv4 IP address (ie it negotiates tunnel ips on setup), while the second router option is a manual configuration and needs to know the IPv4 address at both ends to setup the tunnel. This means that either a static v4 address is needed from your ISP, or else you'd need to so some reconfiguration on your tunnel and router whenever your IPv4 address changes in order to bring up the tunnel again. If youre ok with the static IPv4 issue, I see the router option as more flexible for obvious reasons, easier to distribute connectivity to multiple devices, can be used for other things, etc... http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Routers in fact confirm that the Cisco 827, 83x and 87x are suitable as we saw this morning and config is about 5 or so lines, not rocket science for a tecchie, and would "joe in the street" even bother about v6 if he doesnt even know that v4 exists ? Prices from ebay seem cheap, just need to be sure that they have the correct version of IOS on them as described in the sixxs wiki so they support v6 cheers Mark
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