Rev’s Thought Dump

I’ll go ahead and put the steps / scripts here I had to take to get this to work. in case someone else needs a hint.

Get a linksys WRT54G

Flash the firmware with either Sveasoft or OpenWRT (I used sveasoft)

enable ssh

log in and turn on IPv6 and radvd:

nvram set ipv6_enable=1

nvram set radvd_enable=1

nvram commit

Then cut and paste this:

nvram set rc_startup=”\
ip tunnel add v6tf mode sit remote <put remote ipv4 address here – no brackets> ttl 255
ip link set v6tf up
ip addr add <put assigned ipv6 address here – no brackets> dev v6tf
ip route add ::/0 dev v6tf metric 1
ip addr add <put assigned ipv6 prefix here – no brackets> dev br0
iptables -I INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type 128 -j ACCEPT
”
and:

nvram set radvd_conf=”\
interface br0{
AdvSendAdvert on;
AdvHomeAgentFlag off;
prefix <put assigned ipv6 prefix here – no brackets>
{
AdvOnLink on;
AdvAutonomous on;
AdvRouterAddr off;
};
};
”

then:

nvram commit

Reboot the router and you should be good to go.

IPv6 connections aren’t NAT’d through your router so make sure you’re secure when you get things up and running. It look like XP SP2’s firewall will cover IPv6 and shorewall for linux appears to handle it as well.

To get IPv6 running in XP (and perhaps 2k3) run: ipv6 install

Anymore questions, I guess you could contact me. But hell… that right there is all I know on the matter.