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Topic: Can chumby be adapted to work as a native ip6 device/address

Im curious...is the chumby firmware/wireless adapter ip6 aware/ready... As in. can the chumby be setup to run as a native ip6 device on a network that supports this?

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Re: Can chumby be adapted to work as a native ip6 device/address

My Chumby One (SW3.8) picks up IP6 automatically.  "ifconfig" should show it.  You should be able to reach it on your local network via IP6 automatically.

However it _doesn't_ seem to pick up a default route.  (at least according to "ip -6 route").  So

ip -6 route add default via <your_gw> dev wlan0

is needed.  And you're there.

However, not is all "good" in IP6 land.  ping6 seems to segfault (but I can ping it), telnet works.  ip6tables complains about missing module ip6_tables

So:
Neighbour discovery: YES  (IP6 addresses autoconfig properly)
Router discovery: NO (default gateway not set)
Userspace tools: PARTIAL (ping6 segfault)
Web server: YES (can access /cgi-bin/wifi via IP6, for example)
IP6tables: NO (missing kernel module)

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Re: Can chumby be adapted to work as a native ip6 device/address

UPDATE:  After a reboot it _did_ pick up the default route.  So I'm now wondering if this is related to the "arp" issue mentioned elsewhere (c1 stops responding to arp) and that I've also seen.  If the C1 stops responding to broadcast traffic then it'd also ignore the router discovery broadcasts and eventually drop the default route.