Introducing IPv6 to the Home Network
IPv6 solves a number of problems which obtain on the Internet today. These include address space exhaustion, stateless autoconfiguration, and low cost restoration of end-to-end addressability in the face of ubiquitous network address translation (NAT).

EarthLink Research and Development offers a glimpse of the future of home networking by reworking the open source firmware of the popular Linksys model WRT54G™ home gateway. The firmware rework enables the WRT54G to a) acquire a publicly routeable /64 IPv6 prefix, b) provide IPv6 addresses from that prefix to hosts on the home network, and c) route IPv6 home network traffic to the greater IPv6 Internet. (This firmware is not a supported EarthLink or Linksys product. Please see the Disclaimer below).

The firmware modification does not affect the ability of the WRT54G to support IPv4 traffic as it was designed to do. IPv4 and IPv6 traffic coexist on the home network side by side without interfering with each other. This dual IPv4/IPv6 support makes the WRT54G with the added IPv6 functionality a perfect model IPv6 transition device...


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