WNDR3700v2 Package

Lately I wanted to try using IPv6. The first part I needed was an IPv6 capable router. Since I was always interested running Linux on my router I picked one which is ready to run OpenWRT on it. Netgear WNDR3700 seems to match my needs: Pretty common in the OpenWRT community, 16 MiB flash (4 MiB is the absolute minimum, 8 MiB should be fine for IPv6 use. More flash, more space to play with :-)). But take care: Lately Netgear made a new revision, v3, which is not compatible with OpenWRT, or at least no yet.

My provider says he is still working on implementing IPv6, he don’t know when it’s ready, but it should be in the next months… That’s way too long 🙂 So I decided using one of these tunneling solutions. Wikipedia has a list of tunnel brokers, I chose SixXS. After Signup you have to wait some hours until your account request is being processed. After the approval you get a username, password and 25 credits. These credits are needed to get a tunnel and your own subnet, for each of them you need 15 credits, which makes 30 for both. The first thing you do is requesting a tunnel. Some hours later, you should get a tunnel approval with your Tunnel Id. You can earn 5 credits by operating the tunnel a week. So after you have a tunnel, one has to wait another week to request a subnet. For me it took about two hours to get the account and another two hours to get the tunnel, so they are pretty fast! Read more »