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There are too many devices in the world for 2<sup>32</sup>&asymp;4.3 x 10<sup>9</sup> IP addresses to be enough. The next version of the TCP/IP protocol, IPv6 offers 128bit address space, or 2<sup>128</sup> &asymp; 3.4 x 10<sup>38</sup> IP addresses. There are too many devices in the world for 2<sup>32</sup>&asymp;4.3 x 10<sup>9</sup> IP addresses to be enough. The next version of the TCP/IP protocol, IPv6 offers 128bit address space, or 2<sup>128</sup> &asymp; 3.4 x 10<sup>38</sup> IP addresses.
-IPv6 is currently supported on DD-WRTv22 prefinal5, and will be in the final version of DD-WRTv22 when released.+IPv6 is supported from DD-WRTv22 prefinal5.
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Contents

Introduction

There are too many devices in the world for 232≈4.3 x 109 IP addresses to be enough. The next version of the TCP/IP protocol, IPv6 offers 128bit address space, or 2128 ≈ 3.4 x 1038 IP addresses.

IPv6 is supported from DD-WRTv22 prefinal5.

Setup

Prerequisits

-Knowledge about The DD-WRT Command Line
-Knowledge about the ip command

Instructions

The sconk.se guide offers some pretty nice instructions on how enable this feature starting out with obtaining an IPv6 address.

This wiki also offers an example IPv6 startup script

External Links

http://sconk.se/dd-wrt_ipv6_guide/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6
10 easy steps to IPv6



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