[tech] v6

[David Manchester]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:14:20AM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 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:

Right, so as far as IPv6 is concerned, you've bypassed all the firewalling
on hydra.
Perhaps a rethink of this strategy is in order?

> 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.

Or rebuild hydra so that it talkes IPv6 ?
 
> 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...

Oh. So that's why it went away the other day....

Morwong needs a bit of love, yes.
Probably soon. I'm about to leave the only Tru64 site I work
on and I'm almost certainly going to get rusty :)

d.
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