[AusNOG] IPV6 ether/wireless bridge?

[Greg McLennan]

Depending on your skill set, a basic product like a Mikrotik RB951  will 
do dual stack no problem.
http://shop.duxtel.com.au/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=rb951

Cheers Greg


29/01/2013 4:34 PM, Ross Wheeler wrote:
>
> Daughter is at Monash. Last couple of years, she's had "reasonable" 
> wifi access in her room for her ipad etc, but this year it's lousy - 
> to the point of being barely usable. They're provided with an ethernet 
> connection (comes out the back of the Cisco VoIP handset). Thats ok 
> for her laptop, but the other devices are wifi only.
>
> I figured I'd drop in a cheap, low-power WAP. They appear to do DHCP 
> for registered devices only - students need to sign in and put the MAC 
> address of their device(s) in before they'll work. Checked it all here 
> before we left and perfect. But got there and nothing works. Devices 
> can see the WAP, but don't get addresses. Quick look (didn't have any 
> tools or any time to look more than very quickly) - appears to be IPV6.
>
> The WAP I took certainly doesn't have IPV4/IPV6 stack, and not sure it 
> does anything with IPV6. Looking for something that does, I find LOTS 
> of references to all the ether->wifi bridging stuff that simply 
> doesn't work with IPV6... and since it it pretty topical, figured I'd 
> ask if anyone here knows of something that WILL work, preferably 
> something they've tried in the same or similar environment, I'd 
> appreciate a heads-up on it, as I will have to configure and send the 
> gear and hope it "just works".
>
> TIA.
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