Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 03/31/2010 03:07 PM, Ricky Beam wrote:
> Yes and no. Many of the uber-cheap models simply don't have the
> processing power or memory to do IPv6 well. (Some would say they don't
> do IPv4 well. I'm one of them.) Pure
> here's-a-packet-here's-where-it-goes switching can be done in almost any
> model as long as the v6 stack doesn't make the image too large to fit in
> the 4K rom. Doing anything remotely complicated, like tunneling and
> stateful firewalling, makes the image much too large and eats way too
> much ram. (This is also way many of the cheap models do not run linux
> and generally cannot run a usable linux image.) On the more expensive,
> higher end models, yes, they can run rather complex IPv4/6 stacks quite
> well.

I *seriously* doubt that in this day and age. The basic problem is with
Linksys' business model which is to farm out the engineering to whomever
can produce it cheapest. They provide the spec and if it ain't in the
specs, it ain't in the product. You can expect *no* continuity between
one product and the next; there ain't an IOS or even codebase.

> However, the bottom is that there is simply little to no consumer
> demand for IPv6 support -- esp. in North America (read: US) where most
> of these things are sold.

Yes, of course, except for that making a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Mike, who's been bitten one too many times