[103132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Tue Mar 18 14:28:36 2008
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080317222740.A71070@shell.xecu.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:52:42 +1300
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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,
--
Nathan Ward
