Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

Mohacsi Janos mohacsi at niif.hu
Sun Dec 13 09:22:59 UTC 2009



On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:

> Frank Bulk a écrit :
>> I think they're (all) listed here:
>> http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE
>
> And from an operators perspective (not manufacturer):
>
> Free ISP ADSL (and fiber) operator in France does IPv6 natively to the end 
> user with Router Advertisement since 2 years now.  I think these "CPE" 
> (Customer Premises Equipment) are called simply "box" in France (freebox, 
> livebox, dartybox, and more).  Between the Free box and the core network 
> there is proprietary IPv6-in-IPv4 encapsualtion, not 6to4.  No DHCPv6-PD, 
> which I feel as a big restriction.


implementing 6rd (which is used by Free) also a big restriction.

>
> Plans for livebox and 9box IPv6 do exist if not already deployed.
>
> Spanish FON Fonera based on openwrt, when I checked 2008, did IPv6 somehow, 
> not sure whether natively.
> http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4532&view=previous
>
> From memory, at least one Japanese residential operator did IPv6 to the home 
> several years ago, with explicit IPv6 advertisement on TV during prime time.
>
> Alex
>
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wade Peacock [mailto:wade.peacock at sunwave.net] Sent: Wednesday, 
>> December 02, 2009 5:16 PM
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
>> 
>> We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking the
>> topic of client equipment came up.
>> We all commented that we have not seen any consumer grade IPv6 enable
>> internet gateways (routers/firewalls), a kin to the ever popular Linksys 
>> 54G series, DLinks , SMCs or Netgears.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any leads to information about such products (In 
>> production
>> or planned production)?
>> 
>> We are thinking that most vendors are going to wait until Ma and Pa home
>> user are screaming for them.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> 
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>
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