[119925] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason.Weil@cox.com)
Thu Dec 3 21:55:17 2009
From: <Jason.Weil@cox.com>
To: <jbates@brightok.net>, <newton@internode.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:53:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4B18527F.7040403@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
One of the better/only decent implementations I have run across in the reta=
il world so far is the D-Link 615SW. Look for the IPv6_Ready Gold cert embl=
em (found this on an encap at Fry's and nobody in the department knew what =
IPv6 was) on the front of the box for easy recognition although there are o=
ther modems with RevC (think Rev_B works as well) firmware that don't have =
the label but work as well. The major feature missing is DHCPv6 IA_PD but y=
ou won't find this on any retail router that I am aware of today. What you =
will find though is WAN interface config via static, stateful or stateless =
DHCPv6 as well as stateful and stateless PPPoEv6. It even offers a DHCPv6 s=
erver for your LAN interfaces to boot.
I am not sure if this product was built for the Japanese market and is now =
being released here to determine interest from the retail sector but it is =
useful for a trial lab or for testing at home. The major caveat of course i=
s that all the IPv6 configs are done in Advanced Config mode and hence not =
designed for plug-and-play for your average home user.
Jason
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From: Jack Bates [jbates@brightok.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:06 PM
To: Mark Newton
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
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)
