New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

Frank Bulk - iName.com frnkblk at iname.com
Wed Mar 31 21:51:59 UTC 2010


I confirmed with Linksys' PR person that there is no IPv6 -- if someone sees different, please let us know.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja at bogus.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:30 PM
To: frnkblk at iname.com
Cc: 'Nick Hilliard'; NANOG
Subject: Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

It's not in the wrt610n docs either yet the code was unambiguously in
the box, complete with 6to4 that your couldn't shut off.

On 03/31/2010 01:26 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
> I checked the documentation for two models (Linux model and highest-end non-Linux model), and there's no mention of IPv6.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at foobar.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:16 PM
> To: Joel Jaeggli
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
> 
> On 31/03/2010 21:07, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> the current wrt610n supports ipv6  I failed to see why a slightly
>> updated and rebranded one would not as well.
> 
> because for low-end CPE devices like this, a tiny change in the model
> number (e.g. v1->v2) might mean a completely different internal system,
> with different host CPU, different ethernet controller, etc.  You're not in
> any way guaranteed the same sort of software compatibility when moving from
> one device version to another, particularly for less well supported
> features like ipv6.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 





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