[119941] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ)
Fri Dec 4 08:18:05 2009
From: "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1C9EF593-91C4-445C-8EE7-7671509E51FF@internode.com.au>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:16:57 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>From: Mark Newton [mailto:newton@internode.com.au]
>
> > FWIW - The (Cisco) Linksys 610N does (and perhaps others do?) the same
> > amount of IPv6 the Airport Extreme does - 6to4, SLAAC - out of the
> > box, by default. In fact, I am not sure you can turn it off ..
>
> Yep -- which is worse than useless in the presence of a service
> provider that's already offering dual-stack service.
>
I might agree, if my provider offered native IPv6.
They don't, so this minimal level of IPv6 is much better than nothing.
> (glares at Cisco/Linksys)
Don't restrict yourself to just Cisco/Linksys - glare at all of the vendors,
and the providers for that matter. :)
And don't just glare, poke them insistently / incessantly!
/TJ
