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Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?
From: Mark Newton <newton () internode com au>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:41:25 +1030
On 13/03/2008, at 11:30 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:06:24 CDT, Frank Bulk - iNAME said:Slightly off-topic, but tangentially related that I'll dare to ask.I'm attending an "Emerging Communications" course where the instructor stated that there are SOHO routers that natively support IPv6, pointing toAsia specifically.Well, of *course* you're more likely to find such SOHO routers in markets where a SOHO router owner might actually be able to use the feature. But in most parts of the US, IPv6 support in a SOHO router is right up there with GOSIPcompliance as far as actual usefulness goes...
Yup. If you look at the devices claimed to be IPv6 CPE in Asian markets, they're inevitably Ethernet-only, to be used on networks where the customer is provided with an Ethernet jack in their home or apartment complex. Those of us who use ADSL or (heaven forbid) Cable are kinda out of luck. I haven't yet found ADSL2+ CPE that does IPv6 over PPPoE or PPPoA out of the box. (Billion in Taiwan has a device which they've stamped an "IPv6 Ready" sticker onto, but the IPv6 version of the software hasn't left the confines of their lab yet) As far as I've been able to determine, IPv6 SOHO CPE is largely vaporware right now. And lets not even get started on residential grade CPE, that doesn't even appear to be on most vendors' radar _at all_. If anything useful is going to happen in this space, my guess is that it'll be with custom Linux firmware running on a LinkSys blob with no vendor support. - mark --Mark Newton Email: newton () internode com au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton () atdot dotat org (H)
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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?] 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? Michael K. Smith - Adhost (Mar 13)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Petri Helenius (Mar 13)
- Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Matthew Moyle-Croft (Mar 12)