> On Jul 5, 2015, at 5:32 AM, William Waites <wwai...@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 06:13:52 +0000, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> said: > >> In fact, I show just how to do this using a $99 Apple Airport >> Express in my three-hour online course “Build your own IPv6 Lab” > > An anectode about this, maybe out of date, maybe not. I was helping my > friend who likes Apple things connect to the local community > network. He wanted to use an Airport as his home gateway rather than > the router that we normally use. Turns out these things can *only* do > IPv6 with tunnels and cannot do IPv6 on PPPoE. Go figure. So there is > not exactly a clear path to native IPv6 for your lab this way.
The airport devices/airport express class are not that good of devices as the embedded software doesn’t handle a lot of traffic or long uptime well. Most devices that are over 3 years old likely are not suitable for IPv6 testing aside from understanding what is broken. Keep in mind that software on a CPE device may be 6 months out of date by the time it comes out of a container stateside. Expecting people to use tunnels, etc doesn’t really scale properly. I do wish that I could get static IPv6 prefixes along with my static IPv4 at home, but having IPv6 at all took precedence. - Jared
