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

[John Winters]

Richard Jones wrote:
> 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.

Does it not have the same menu options as before?  I haven't needed to 
modify the firmware on the router at all and I would have thought they 
would keep all the standard functionality the same.

Cheers,
John
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