Internet lights up with new IPv6 connections

Brink · 06 Jun 2012

Petey7 said:

Ah, okay. Out of curiousity, where did you find that information at? I was looking on the linksys website and couldn't find where it said one way or the other.

For how old the model is, I didn't suspect that it would, but I found a few links while doing a Google search stating that Ipv6 may be able to be enabled if you flashed the router's factory firmware with some unknown 3rd party firmware. I wouldn't recommend that at all.

Petey7 · 06 Jun 2012

I wouldn't do it either. Probably wouldn't be the worst idea to get a wireless-N router anyways.

z3r010 · 06 Jun 2012

I use a gogo cpe for all my IPv6 testing while I await my ISP rolling the new network out.

Brink · 06 Jun 2012

z3r010 said:

I use a gogo cpe for all my IPv6 testing while I await my ISP rolling the new network out.

That's a nice handy little device.

Borg 386 · 06 Jun 2012

Well, maybe it'll help boost the world economy when lots of people have to run out & buy new routers...

seekermeister · 06 Jun 2012

Brink,

When I tried your test link, back in post 5, it said that everything was good, except that my browser (Opera) prefers IPv4 over IPv6. It mentions that might cause performance problems, so I did some Googling to find this page:

How To Specify and Browse Website Using IPv6 Address With Firefox, Opera Web Browser

All that I gleaned from it, is to use an IPv6 url in square brackets, like this one for Google:

http://[2001:4860:0:2001::68]/

However, when I tried that, it couldn't connect at all. What is wrong?

jimbo45 · 06 Jun 2012

Hi there
I'm a novice in these sort of things but once you have connected to your ISP don't they do IPV6==> IpV4 or IPV4==> IPV6 translation so you can get access to the relevant website.

You supply the Web address such as www.anysite.xx
the ISP should with their DNS stuff find the correct address whether IPV4 or IPV6 and
forward you to the appropriate website.

seems simple to me with NOTHING to do at the users end -- or what have I missed here.

Maybe as an Engineer rather than an I.T guy I'm assuming this is too simple.

Cheers
jimbo

seekermeister · 06 Jun 2012

I hope that you are right, and it is that simple, but it is still a bit cloudy to me.

M1GU31 · 06 Jun 2012

Does this mean i'm not able to or just haven't enabled?I'm guessing I don't?

p.s.i blacked out the numbers with paint

chev65 · 07 Jun 2012

Petey7 said:

It is a Linksys WRT54G (I know, old). Also, after turning the router on and off, Test-IPv6.org says I have an IPv6 address but still the DNS server still has no IPv6 connectivity.

EDIT: My IPv6 connection seems to be through something called Teredo, which does not appear to be true IPv6 connectivity.

If it says only the DNS server is a problem then just changing the DNS server in your routers settings to Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 will fix the problem.

It's also pretty easy to update the firmware on your WRT54G router. Most versions are supported by the DD-WRT firmware. You can check your version for compatibility by using the link below. You can also get the firmware there.
www.dd-wrt.com | Unleash Your Router