[AusNOG] IPV6 ether/wireless bridge?

[Terry Singleton]

Something like the D-Link DIR-645 would fit the bill I reckon. Sub $100...

regards

Terry

On 29 January 2013 16:04, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> 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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