[Gllug] Still struggling to set up IPv6 on a debian etch box

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sat Mar 22 20:23:21 UTC 2008


On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:21:27PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:54:53PM -0000, john at sinodun.org.uk wrote:
> >> DG834G (version 3 IIRC)
> > 
> > Any luck with this John?  I just bought one anyway on the basis that
> > even if I can't get IPv6 working, it won't be any worse than the
> > Belkin p-o-s I'm using at the moment.
> 
> Sorry for the delay in responding - I've been delayed in trying further 
> and I've finally got around to it today.  I hadn't noticed there were 
> more posts to this thread.
> 
> Yes - it does work.  The router passes through the protocol 43 packets 
> as required and I now have full IPv6 connectivity through my Netgear 
> DG834G router.  I'm using A&A as my ISP and connecting to their tunnel 
> endpoint using the following in /etc/network/interfaces

Sadly the one I bought off Amazon turned out to be the DG834G version 4
which is based on a poisonous some-source-available-but-not-open-source
Broadcom chipset.  It's literally completely different internally from
the v3.

Grrrrrr ....

Rich.

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