[arin-discuss] Anyone play with IPv6 on the RV4000?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Anderson [mailto:dean at av8.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:37 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Anyone play with IPv6 on the RV4000?
> 
> 
> Hi, Ted,
> 
> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> > I picked up a little consumer ethernet-to-ethernet router the other 
> > day for about $120 USD and surprised that is has IPv6 capability in 
> > it.  It's a Linksys model RVS4000.
> 
> Linksys runs mostly embedded linux. Linux has had some kind 
> of IPv6 support for a long time, though IPv6 is usually 
> disabled in the embedded versions because of space 
> constraints.  Its rather interesting that linksys assumes 
> there will be IPv6-only clients, since there are no such 
> beasts at this time.
> 

You can select either IPv4 only, IPv6 only, or both.

The Linux source for the RVS4000 (and other products) is here

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C1&childpagename=US/L
ayout&cid=1169671246380&pagename=Linksys/Common/VisitorWrapper

One big feature missing - the little 4 port switch in
the device is managable - partly, but you can't obtain the
mac address table from the web interface.


Have a good weekend,

Ted