Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Fri Jun 3 12:54:29 UTC 2011


On Jun 3, 2011, at 5:27 AM, fredrik danerklint wrote:

> The problem is not all on Microsoft at this case.
> 
> 
> For example; I've bought a ZyXEL P-2612HNU-F1(which has
> 802.11n Wireless ADSL 2+ 4-port gateway 2 SIP 2 USB 3G Backup)
> in december 2010. It basiclly has everything in it.
> 
> How do I as a customer do to have a working IPv6 setup on this modem since 
> ZyXEL, basicilly, has decide that it will not support IPv6 at all? 

irrelevant, nothing is going to break for you on june 8th. At some point you'll buy a new modem, maybe not soon.

> I mean, you can not say it does not have the the cpu power for handling IPv6 
> when it can also act as a fileserver and a printserver for example.
> 
> What they (ZyXEL) are saying to me (for not haveing IPv6 at this moment) is 
> that they don't have the skills to implement IPv6 in their current products.
> 
> 
> Think about all the CPE that will not be upgraded, since those that makes them 
> don't care at all, even tough it probably has the cpu power to handle IPv6.
> 
> 
> And I haven't even started at the network equiment that exists between me as a 
> ISP and my customer (this equiment is out of my control), that can't handle 
> IPv6 even if my customer got an working CPE with IPv6.
> 
> 
> How fun is that?
> 
> 
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2533454/
>> 
>> Uh...
>> 
>>                                -Bill
> 
> 
> -- 
> //fredan
> 





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