[99397] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Thu Sep 20 06:39:21 2007
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:32:19 +0100
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From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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> > If there's interest I'll hack up a FreeBSD nanobsd image with ipv6=20
> > support, a routing daemon (whatever people think is good=20
> enough) and=20
> > whatever other stuff is "enough" to act as a 6to4 gateway.
> > You too can build diskless core2duo software routers for USD $1k.
>=20
> What about Soekris hardware? I don't have any personal=20
> experience with it, but it looks very appealing to build load=20
> balancers/routers out of, and quite inexpensive.
Before you choose which hardware platform to use, you should take
a look at the software platform and see what other people are using.
There are dozens of Linux router distros like OpenWRT out there.
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ Linux Embedded gateway/router/firewall
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6003080606.html Building a low
cost router appliance
Linux Devices is a good site to find information about embedded
hardware platforms that support Linux. There are a lot of possibilities
ranging from fanless x86 systems built around a Via EPIA motherboard
to traditional embedded platforms based around ARM or MIPS processors.
And just about anything that runs Linux will also run BSD if that is
what you want.
--Michael Dillon
