Re: IPv6 faster/better proof? was Re: Need /24 (arin) asap

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

The problem with its IPv6 support is that is only supporting 6in4, which by the way, they call it 6to4, so it is very 
weird and confusing customers ...

That "6-to-4 actually means 6-in-4" was quite confusing to me as well. I just enabled it to prove that they had a 
language moment there. Good thing it didn't backfire on me :-).


Yeah I can confirm, as I tested it several times, 6to4 for them is proto41, but it is very confusing and against 
standards nomenclature … This don’t say anything good from a vendor, in my opinion!



So for native IPv6 or a 6in4 tunnel, is fine, but any other transition mechanism is NOT supported, so we end up 
reflashing then with OpenWRT.

Not sure I'd blame them either - they develop a lot of features for pretty much next-to-nothing; and are being enabled 
by customers that are willing to take the risk for relief on budget. 


I’ve got very good customers from Mikrotik asking them in private and in public and they even didn’t reply. No other 
transition mechanism is available, no roadmap. So, you can’t use them for example for an IPv6-only access network which 
clearly is what is needed now.


They could be more inclined to fix bugs and develop corner-case features sooner if they were in the premium market. 
But, as my (well-known on this list) American friend would say, "I conjecturbate" :-).

 

They basically run a Linux … and you have OpenWRT sources with all what they need to implement 4in6 transition 
mechanisms, so no excuses! I must say also that no excuses for other CPE vendors, of course, but others at least have 
DS-Lite or even lw4o6. Very few offer 464XLAT (CLAT part is what the CPE needs) or MAP-T/E. Hopefully this will change 
soon.

 



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