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RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:35:48 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, John Lee wrote:
What I would like to see today is SOHO routers that do not interfere with 6 over 4 transport since my ISP does not offer home DSL termination of v6. Taking the silicon in a SOHO and adding 5 to 10 $ US in cost for v6 and multiple that by 5 to get a retail price of those features. Then offset that with the decrease in silicon size when you add both together with smaller size lines and transistors on the chips, I would project SOHO prices of 250 - 350 $ US to start with for v4 & v6 and dropping from there.
OpenWRT which actually supports IPv6 (by virtue of being linux based) can be run on very cheap devices (as most smaller home NAT-gateways are CPU based, no biggie), I suspect IPv6 on most of these is only a matter of someone actually putting it in their RFQ and be willing to pay a few $ extra per unit when buying the normal large telco volumes.
Running code is out there, it's just a matter of getting it into the devices.
The smaller SOHO routers that cisco has (800 and 1800 series) are quite ready for this, 12.4T even has support for DHCPv6 prefix delegation on the 878 for instance (it was the only one I checked in the software advisor).
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?], (continued)
- Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?] Kevin Oberman (Mar 13)
- RE: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?] michael.dillon (Mar 14)
- RE: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?] michael.dillon (Mar 14)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Andrew Burnette (Mar 13)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? David Conrad (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? JORDI PALET MARTINEZ (Mar 12)
- RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Frank Bulk - iNAME (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? GIULIANO (UOL) (Mar 12)
- RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers? John Lee (Mar 12)
- RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Mark Newton (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Joel Jaeggli (Mar 13)
- RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Frank Bulk - iNAME (Mar 13)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Mark Newton (Mar 12)
- RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Frank Bulk - iNAME (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Matthew Moyle-Croft (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Justin M. Streiner (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Matthew Moyle-Croft (Mar 12)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Mohacsi Janos (Mar 13)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Petri Helenius (Mar 13)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Matthew Moyle-Croft (Mar 12)