IPv6 on SOHO routers?
Matthew Moyle-Croft
mmc at internode.com.au
Thu Mar 13 06:34:56 UTC 2008
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine who works for a company that owns another company
>> that sells consumer CPE said "Well, this is a volume business. Why
>> release a feature that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could
>> do it later and sell you ANOTHER CPE to replace the one you just
>> bought?".
>
> While it doesn't quality as out-of-the-box v6 support, a Linksys
> WRT54G with a replacement image like Sveasoft Talisman does claim to
> support it.
Yeah - not quite the issue - I've got a Cisco 877 at home and am running
dual stack natively at home. But I'm not a typical customer.
But really, we need to start seeing some CPE, even in beta form, so we
can start working through how a transition to IPv6 might work.
(eg. customer local networks, SIP for VOIP, stateful firewalls (given
the anti-NAT-brigade have made it the only solution - don't get me
started about how low end CPE stateful firewalls suck).
Customers tend to keep their CPE for a few years. That means customers
buying now will still have it in 2010.
MMC
>
> I haven't tested it yet on a guinea pig WRT54G, but I'll get around to
> that at some point soon :)
>
> jms
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