IPv6 (tutorial)

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1 Introduction
2 Setup
- 2.1 Prerequisits
- 2.2 Instructions
3 External Links

Introduction

There are too many devices in the world for 2³²≈4.3 x 10⁹ IP addresses to be enough. The next version of the TCP/IP protocol, IPv6 offers 128bit address space, or 2¹²⁸ ≈ 3.4 x 10³⁸ IP addresses.

IPv6 is currently supported on DD-WRTv22 prefinal5, and will be in the final version of DD-WRTv22 when released.

Setup

Prerequisits

-Knowledge about The DD-WRT Command Line
-Knowledge about the ip command

Instructions

The sconk.se guide offers some pretty nice instructions on how enable this feature starting out with obtaining an IPv6 address.

This wiki also offers an example IPv6 startup script

External Links

http://sconk.se/dd-wrt_ipv6_guide/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6
10 easy steps to IPv6