Re: [gentoo-user] Two local subnets and IPv6

[Nils Holland <nhg@tisys.org>]

On 07:07 Tue 08 Mar     , Mick wrote:

> I have not tried this myself (my router won't do ipv6 yet) so you'll need to 
> try it out yourself.  Instead of terminating the tunnel at your router, 
> forward it as is and terminate it at gentoo box 1.  Then forward the ipv6 
> addresses from there for each of your clients.  This means that the router 
> will no longer function as such and for all intends and purposes you can place 
> it in a fully bridged mode (no WAN IP address, no NAT-ing, no DHCP-ing.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Hi Mick,

thanks for the hint! To give some feedback, I can say that I finally
settled for a completely different approach. I moved away from
creating a separate subnet on the first floor and connecting it to the
ground floor (and Internet) via one machine with good WLAN reception
that served as a router. Instead, as I (or rather: my girlfriend)
found it "cosmetically unfortunate" to pull an Ethernet cable between
the floors, I decided to give these powerline adapters a try that I
had often seen in shops but never found an "excuse" to really look
at. Yes, these "wall-wart" kind of things that have an Ethernet port
and plug into a normal wall socket in order to transfer data via the
power line.

Just for the record in case anyone is interested: At least in my home
these things work reasonably well. More than enough to "carry" my
Internet connection to the first floor, good enough for reasonably
fast file transfers between internal machines on different floors.
However, preliminary tests suggest that the "up to 500 MBit/s"
specified on the box are nowehere near what I seem to be able to reach
in reality (and thus, I could probably have saved 20 bucks and went
for a cheaper 200 or even 85 MBit/s model without much loss in
real-world performance).

All of that's off-topic, though, I just thought I'd tell how things
eventually worked out. ;-)

Greetings,
Nils


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