[119923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Dec 3 19:07:54 2009
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:06:23 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <BD215CD8-D09F-4E6C-8E7D-864F3094D148@internode.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mark Newton wrote:
> The fact that someone got OpenWRT working in less than a week of spare
> time makes it totally clear why the commercial vendors haven't done
> anything: They're just simply not interested, nothing more, nothing
> less.
I suspect they didn't use DHCPv6-PD with that OpenWRT. I've had issues
with the dhcp client that comes with it in the past, though I've had an
ubuntu box acting as a router with wide-dhcp doing -PD. It works okay,
although the devs really should look at better support on the automatic
address assignment model and support for PD issued from PD. Of course, I
suspect there's just not enough interest in the linux dev community to
bother.
Finally, one of the home router firmware companies (which I believe
linksys used when they didn't use linux) has had IPv6 support in their
codebase for a year now. See nanog history. The manufacturers that use
their code don't seem to have implemented the new IPv6 code.
Jack (sick, so if it doesn't make sense, sorry)
