[119816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Wed Dec 2 18:22:06 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:21:18 -0800
From: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
To: wade.peacock@sunwave.net
In-Reply-To: <4B16F535.70306@sunwave.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Wade Peacock wrote:
> We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking
> the topic of client equipment came up.
> We all commented that we have not seen any consumer grade IPv6 enable
> internet gateways (routers/firewalls), a kin to the ever popular
> Linksys 54G series, DLinks , SMCs or Netgears.
>
> Does anyone have any leads to information about such products (In
> production or planned production)?
>
> We are thinking that most vendors are going to wait until Ma and Pa
> home user are screaming for them.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
You're correct, out of the box there aren't many. The first couple that
come to mind are the Apple Airport Express and Airport Extreme, but I
don't believe Linksys/Netgear/etc. have support out of the box.
