Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Michael Holstein wrote:

> > I checked the documentation for two models (Linux model and highest-end non-Linux model), and there's no mention of 
> > IPv6.
>
> If this is a strictly "hardware" discussion, v6 "works" on a variety of
> models, albeit not with stock firmware.
> To wit : http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6
>
> This suggests that Cisco (et.al.) can release an "official" firmware
> image to support v6 on existing devices whenever they're sufficiently
> motivated to do so. I'd wager the only reason it hasn't been made GA is
> to limit the number of "pass-the-buck" support calls that start at $isp
> and get bounced back saying "we don't support that yet, call whoever
> makes your router".
Not necessarily.  dd-wrt lacks the memory expense of the silly web
interface that Linksys is oh so fond of implementing in their consumer
grade boxen. I suspect that adding features to the Linksys code may
be a bit tighter on image and data space than dd-wrt's "stripped down"
efficiency.

Owen