v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] (IPv6-MW)

Thu Feb 5 09:31:28 UTC 2009

Scott Howard wrote:
> > And that brings us back to the good old catch-22
> > of ISPs not supporting IPv6 because consumer CPE doesn't support it,
> > and CPE not supporting it because ISP don't...

No, it's because neither need to do it. If they did the apparent
catch-22 would be fixed

Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> As I asked before - has ANYONE done this before?   ie.  fully 
> dualstacked to customers?  Or is it still theory?

We have ADSL users with v4 and v6, they mostly
use low end Ciscos, 837 and such (cheap on ebay so
for the tech user base it's not too hard)

Cheap retail CPE adding v6 by default would help.

James W. Laferriere wrote:
>  	Hello Matthew ,  See way below ...

It's not so far if you don't quote the entire message

> I am beginning to be worried that no one [has|is willing to divulge] 
> that they have accomplished this .  One would think that someone would
> at least pipe up just for the bragging factor .

The thread seemed long and noisy enough already without everyone
doing a me too.

We did it, to see if we could and because we have like
minded users wanting access. I know there are others.

brandon