[119827] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Wed Dec 2 21:16:28 2009
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4533DA29-186C-4610-AC1B-C0D73BD1B03D@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:45:17 +1030
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/12/2009, at 11:24 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
> There are specifications for them being developed in the IETF, BBF, =
and Cable Labs. Basically, all of the usual suspects are interested in =
having product that meets needs.
I challenge the usual suspects to deliver actual working dual stack IPv6 =
ADSL CPE rather than feigning interest. None of the major CPE vendors =
appear to have a v6 plan despite your claims. We have an IPv6 dual =
stack trial for ADSL going on and not a single CPE from the _major =
consumer CPE vendors_. =20
Come on CPE vendors - most of your run Linux in your CPEs these days. =
How hard is it to make it work? Someone got an image working for us =
with OpenWRT in his spare time in a week, surely you CPE vendors can =
cobble something together for people to try out in a real piece of ADSL =
CPE I can buy at a shop? I don't mean 6to4 or pseudo dual stack stuff. =
I mean real ADSL CPE with dual stack PPP and DHCPv6 in one box. =20
MMC
