Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc () internode com au>]

Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine who works for a company that owns another company 
> > that sells consumer CPE said "Well, this is a volume business. Why 
> > release a feature that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could 
> > do it later and sell you ANOTHER CPE to replace the one you just 
> > bought?".
>
> While it doesn't quality as out-of-the-box v6 support, a Linksys 
> WRT54G with a replacement image like Sveasoft Talisman does claim to 
> support it.
Yeah - not quite the issue - I've got a Cisco 877 at home and am running 
dual stack natively at home.  But I'm not a typical customer.

But really, we need to start seeing some CPE, even in beta form, so we 
can start working through how a transition to IPv6 might work.
(eg.  customer local networks, SIP for VOIP, stateful firewalls (given 
the anti-NAT-brigade have made it the only solution - don't get me 
started about how low end CPE stateful firewalls suck).

Customers tend to keep their CPE for a few years.   That means customers 
buying now will still have it in 2010.

MMC
> I haven't tested it yet on a guinea pig WRT54G, but I'll get around to 
> that at some point soon :)
>
> jms

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