Re: Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt

[Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>]

On 18/03/2008, at 3:34 PM, Andy Dills wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Nathan Ward wrote:
> > I'm not selling anything. Code is freely available. When I've got  
> > some decent
> > instructions for it I'll post links to NANOG if you like.
> > To be fair, it's really nothing more than FreeBSD with a couple of  
> > patches,
> > and Miredo packaged up in a nice-to-deal-with bundle, that means  
> > you can plug
> > it in today and make it work with 2 or 3 lines of config, instead  
> > of spending
> > the next 3 years "engineering a solution" that the various parts of  
> > "the
> > business" agree with - that is, assuming they give their engineers  
> > time to
> > even think about IPv6, let alone engineer for it. Key word:  
> > pragmatic.
>
> Perhaps you could integrate your work with a project like pfsense?
>
> From what I've seen, that's the best "open source CPE" solution, and
> doesn't yet have real IPv6 support (but has just about everything  
> else).
> That would be a huge benefit to the community and potentially open  
> up some
> business opportunities for you.


It'd be good if the pfsense guys would do some IPv6 stuff, yes. I  
however, am not really interested in building CPEs, nor am I  
interested in building CPEs commercially.


Thanks,

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Nathan Ward