I admit defeat… You know how it is: you’re searching for a solution to a technical problem, and you KNOW that someone else has had the same problem. In fact thousands of people have had the same problem. And it was fixed years ago. If I can just find that solution…
EDIT: 22 July – The project has really taken shape. Version 0.3 is now useful enough to be considered a working beta version. Building is very simple – do please try it out and let me know of any issues, good or bad.
And find it, eventually (Google, Bing et al – Thank You!) you do.
Except when you don’t. Back in this post I wrote about a specific, but key, problem in implementing an IPv6 firewall/router on a Linux box, when attached to a “normal” ISP.
What was the problem?
In a nutshell, it was as follows. My ISP gives me a full IPv6 service, with a staticically allocated (i.e. fixed) global IPv6 address. They give me a /64, so I in turn have a full /64 to play with in my private net. Enough to network every dust particle in the house. (And this is one dusty house).
As I found, not surprisingly the ISP does not let me advertise address space back to them regarding which devices in my private-but-globally-addressed network actually exist. Given that, I rather naively hoped that they would thus blindly forward anything that was addressed to my (global prefix + private part) network to me regardless, and treat my gateway device as, in effect, a sort of default route for my IPv6 prefix.
Recent Comments