Re: Why people by NATs

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:17 +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
> > Depends on the type of home user ;)
> > Nevertheless, most homes currently only consist of maybe 3 ethernet
> > segments (wired, wireless, office or something) and maybe a max of 20
> > hosts. Changing the IP's of those hosts should not be a problem even if
> > you had to do it manually. Most of these NAT boxes come with built-in
> > DHCP support, hopefully the will come with IPv6 and RA and maybe DHCPv6
> > support too in the near future (Yamaha has them already :)
> 
> Or you just modify a Linksys router :)

Ack, nicely turn that NAT box into a real router by flashing it with a 
This is unfortunately not something that most people dare to do. Then
again, I know that quite a lot of people 'upgraded' their SpeedTouch
Home's to Pro's for somewhat the same purpose. And for that matter a lot
of people upgrade their Xboxes, PS2's etc. There is always somebody who
can do this around.

I understood there where Seasoft firmwares for above linksys's that even
have aiccu preloaded on it, so that the box can very easily build an
IPv6 tunnel in cases there is no native connectivity ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

_______________________________________________

Ietf@xxxxxxxx
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

[Index of Archives]     [IETF Annoucements]     [IETF]     [IP Storage]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCTP]     [Linux Newbies]     [Fedora Users]