[tech] v6

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Tue May 27 00:14:20 WST 2003


On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:21:36PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> So there's a new v6 machine ... care to tell us about it Bernard?

I've converted one of the old Digital Venturis (P-60/32MB) into a
dedicated IPv6 router currently named foo6, running OpenBSD 3.0. It
has a NIC on the guild link (DE205) and a NIC on the machine room
network (FA310TX, mine). My grand plan was to use vlans to put that
second NIC on all three ucc networks, but I'm not having much joy
getting BSD's vlans to chat through bertoli today.

So as it stands, we have v6 routing well on the machine room
network. Mussel refuses to get an IPv6 address, but that's linux
IPv6 for you. There's no firewalling in place on v6. Nor are there
any AAAA records. The only other quirk with the machine is that the
Netgear card doesn't work until the cable has been unplugged and
replugged after a reboot. Thankfully it's merely a temporary
measure:

If and when the guild link is upgraded, consensus is that hydra (and
foo6) will need to be replaced with something a little gruntier, and
something that handle v4 & v6 without quirks (*BSD?). I have a spare
Cyrix 6x86-200 sitting here if we can't find anything better or
queerer. The network might want a bit of a redesign too while we're
at it.

On that note, morwong found itself with a severly reduced uptime
when it decided to panic as I changed it's default IPv6 route. :/
So perhaps it's time it had some patches...

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham 
 bernard at blackham dot com dot au
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