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| Artifact ID: | c370cece59df0c16af401727fe809b8f14fa6750 |
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| Page Name: | IPv6 |
| Date: | 2012-02-19 14:44:38 |
| Original User: | davidevans |
| Parent: | 84b34e645aa24b5f428d5c28ace5bf9ae4b41f1f (diff) |
| Next | c96e53ab7f5589ff83cca8e80d089cc2a48d079b |
My ageing Netgear and Zyxel ADSL routers were suffering from bitrot (described here) so it was time for a replacement.
My requirements were:
- IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) support so it would be future-proofed.
- Reliable ADSL performance on my phone line as I am rather a long distance (2.5 miles) from the exchange.
- Good diagnostics in case of problems.
- In hindsight it did not necessarily have to be from one of the big names.
- Wireless N and Gigabit Ethernet.
- Reasonably easy to set-up, but hey, I'm a geek, soI can cope with a bit of complexity.
After some research on various manufacturers websites I failed to find anything that supported IPv6 at a reasonable price. They all seemed to be rather coy about describing their IPv6 features in their manuals.
Eventually I noticed a blog posting which said good things about Mikrotik routers. I had never heard of Mikrotik so I looked at their website. They seemed to specialise in routers running their own customised version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux|Linux] named RouterOS. They offered a try before you buy facility to run RouterOS on a spare PC. I do not have a spare PC, but I do have a Parallels virtual machine. I downloaded the demonstration ISO and loaded it into a new virtual machine.