All home networks are connected to the core by 802.11 WLAN. All networks use a small PC with two network cards that runs the NetBSD operating system as home gateway. Some of the home gateways run RIP, but most have default routing hard coded into their initial configuration. A prefix is manually allocated to each home network and routed to the NetBSD machine. The home networks use a /56 prefix. Almost all home networks are dual stack (on the inside, that is). A subset of the home networks has been used to experiment with complete IPv6-only operation.

All necessary software to facilitate the requirements of the network must be run on the NetBSD gateway. In particular, traffic of all kinds, including DNS that arrives at the router must be dealt with in a transparent manner. For the address allocation and routing of IPv6 packets the standard IPv6 autoconfiguration mechanisms were used. The gateway thus supplies user machines with the network prefix and the default route for IPv6. In addition, the gateway runs DHCPv4 which is used to assign non-routable private IPv4 addresses and IPv4 default route to user equipment. DHCPv4 is also used to configure the DNS server to use by user equipment. The DNS server configured is the non-routable IPv4-address of the home gateway. DHCPv4 was used to lacking DHCPv6 support or other DNS discovery mechanisms. Pure IPv6-only nodes that do not use or implement DHCPv4 therefore need to have their (IPv6) DNS server address configured manually.

On each home router a DNS proxy was run which would forward the DNS requests (over IPv6) to a real nameserver running at Telenor Research Laboratories in Tromsø. Each home network was given a domain beneath tft.tele.no. The DNS proxy is the totd proxy designed and implemented by Invenia
Innovation within the 6NET project.