Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

fredrik danerklint fredan-nanog at fredan.se
Tue Jun 7 12:45:30 UTC 2011


Two thing about this one after have read the manual of this product.

This is probably for the american market. I'm in europe.

Second, nowhere in their manual is the word "ipv6" or "v6" found. 


> Have a ZyXEL VSG1432 right behind me where the IPv6 works pretty good
> (http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE#DSL).  All the DSL modem
> vendors could stand improving their GUI.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fredrik danerklint [mailto:fredan-nanog at fredan.se]
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:27 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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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