IPv6

From a quick look it appears that's for Sparc 64-bit not Sparc ReadyNAS which use 32-bit CPUs.

Also it's not for the sarge distribution used by the Sparc ReadyNAS.

edit: Sparc ReadyNAS use sarge distribution

maxblack wrote:
sphardy wrote: Some ISPs are now implementing IPv6 for home users and so user home equipment must support it too to be functional. As for benefits - every device can have a unique address, so no need for NAT etc, plus increased security features are the main points for us end users Thanks, I'm gonna study-up on it some more!

There is a few ISP's out there that provide various IPv6 tunnels allowing you to set up IPv6 access to the Internet without your ISP providing native IPv6.

I have used Hurricane Electric Internet Services (http://he.net/) free 6in4 tunnel (http://www.tunnelbroker.net/). They give you a routed /64 and an optional routed /48 IPv6 address space for your tunnel.

They also have a free simple training/certification that you can go through.

I began using a Hurricane Electric tunnel on an Ubuntu system until my firewall supported IPv6. I have also been able to set it up on an Apple Airport Extreme.

I see. It seems the Etch distribution is outdated, and has been replaced by the Lenny distribution. However it also seems that the Etch distribution had an IPv6 stack.

The descriptions of all Debian versions refer to the same page about the Sparc cpu: http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/. Unless I'm mistaken the Sparc distribution is a 32 bit version, and you have to make a special build for the Sun4u and Sun4v cpus that support a 64 bit address space, if you want to use more than a 32bit address space.

CharlesLaCour wrote:
I began using a Hurricane Electric tunnel on an Ubuntu system until my firewall supported IPv6. I have also been able to set it up on an Apple Airport Extreme.

At the moment I'm using a Hurricane Electric tunnel as well. Next year my ISP will supply us with IPv6 networks. I'm using an AVM Fritz!box 7390 router (not available in the US). When you give it a /48 network, it will set up an IPv6 /64 network on your standard network and another on the WiFi guest network as well.

grunnsat wrote:
I see. It seems the Etch distribution is outdated, and has been replaced by the Lenny distribution. However it also seems that the Etch distribution had an IPv6 stack.

oops, I think I was getting confused with x86. Sparc ReadyNAS use sarge which is even older than etch.

If there was an easy way to get IPv6 on Sparc ReadyNAS one would think it would've been done by now.

I guess you're right. I found some documentation that although the Etch Sparc distribution contains 32 bit software, it is build for 64 bit Sparc cpus. Support for 32 bit Sparc cpus ended with previous versions like Sarge.

However even the Sarge distribution already contained an IPv6 stack so it seems. I don't know if it is usable, but Netgear could have a look at it.

2013 and still can't use ipv6 addresses in nfs export permissions...

From where I saw things going before I left NTGR, I don't see this happening with a firmware update myself. Might have to be an add-on by third-party to accomplish it. We can't even get the 'Jedi' to visit these forums anymore, they aren't listening anymore.