[119828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Dec 2 21:23:38 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:22:38 -0800
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <4533DA29-186C-4610-AC1B-C0D73BD1B03D@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
>
>> 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.
fred. check your mail system. it is regurgitating email from 2001,
except it is modifying the headers to have current dates.
randy
