Which tunnel should I use with an Apple Airport extreme
Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 07 May 2008 14:41:05
Hello,
I want to get my parents into IPv6, they have a german T-DSL access, so they have a dynamic IP with a 24h disconnect.
Their Router is an Airport Extreme. Which tunnel type should I (they) choose to get the LAN to IPv6?
Is it so easy how I think, that I type the tunnel access data into the Airport and it works?
I hope I didn't miss a thread where this is figured out.
Yours
Michael T. Hoffmann
Which tunnel should I use with an Apple Airport extreme
Jeroen Massar on Wednesday, 07 May 2008 14:50:40
As you are on a forceful-disconnect dynamic IP, it will change every 24 hours, you will thus have to reconfigure the tunnel every 24 hours locally and also on the PoP, thus using the webinterface.
For this situation, heartbeat does it's job quite well. Unfortunately, (afaik) one can't load extra software onto Airports. As such, you can't use heartbeat, nor AYIYA.
Possible Solutions:
- ask/beg Apple to implement a heartbeat client
- run AICCU on another host behind the Airport.
The real solution: unless you have a need to access hosts behind the IPv4 NAT directly (which is actually one of my main reason for liking/using IPv6 ;) there is not much benefit of having IPv6 at a end-user network, especially not in the case where people just surf a bit and read mail, then IPv6 will most likely only hurt due to various strange problems that might occur.
Which tunnel should I use with an Apple Airport extreme
Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 07 May 2008 15:22:57
And that's my reason too.
OK, then I'm going to use AICCU and hope, that either Apple implements a heartbeat client or the German Telekom provide native IPv6. But it might be a while until there is christmas and easter on one day.
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