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IP6 support on FW available ?
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Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:16 pmby wd9895
Hi experts,
recently I changed my DSL internet account to a new 50/10 Mbit account with a very ! Fritzbox 7490. This nice router is able to manage IP6 as well as IP4 adresses. And look: the new VDSL also works on real IP6.
As my windows PC support IP6 I wonder if the 2big2 and NWS2 with the next firmware releases will support this new IP scheme.
Can you give a statement on the support / availibility in your firmware ?
Re: IP6 support on FW available ?
Posted:
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:01 pmby Jocko
Hi wd9895,
need to talk with fvdw but the kernel should support it.
but what is the interest of using ip6 behind a ISP box?
Re: IP6 support on FW available ?
Posted:
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:41 pmby wd9895
IPv4 will get out of fashion :)
It's not a request for the short term but IPv6 will be support by every component very quickly and the dual stack is just a solution in between.
Re: IP6 support on FW available ?
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Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:03 pmby fvdw
yes the fvdw-sl kernel of the kirkwood devices has ipv6 support
Re: IP6 support on FW available ?
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Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:55 pmby Mijzelf
Jocko wrote:but what is the interest of using ip6 behind a ISP box?
In most cases an IPv6 router not just gets a public IPv6 address, but a whole /48 or /64 subnet. Which means you have billions of routable public IP addresses. So you can easily run more than one webserver, ftpserver, ... without port conflicts.
On second thought, I don't know if ftp supports IPv6.
Re: IP6 support on FW available ?
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Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:28 pmby Jocko
Thank Mijzelf
I understand better.
About ftp server, we use proftpd and by default its configuration support ipv6 but of course need to check other servers. For example I not sure that our dropbear version supports ipv6,...
Re: IP6 support on FW available ?
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Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:00 pmby fvdw
but we have a compiler :punk that can solve the problem if we need to upgrade a certain program