[120249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Sun Dec 13 18:45:20 2009
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:14:25 +1030
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On 14/12/2009, at 9:38 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I hope you're right. I really hope that there's this phenomenal transition
> in 2011 of content from 0.1% IPv6-accessible to 99% IPv6-accessible.
Forget content, they're just along for the ride.
When most service providers have eye-wateringly shite CGNs acting
as intermediaries between eyeballs and content, the content providers
will be motivated to move to v6 even if only as a means of damage
control.
> And
> not even by node count, but by percentage of traffic. And pain is one way
> to get there. Every few months I think of the number of truck rolls we'll
> need to do to swap out DSL modems and SOHO routers with their IPv6
> equivalents.
Ah, that's something we don't have. Our customers own their own
(which has its own slew of problems: I can't make them upgrade,
and if I tell them they'll have to spend a hundred bucks to restore
the functionality I broke for them last week I'll have a revolt
on my hands...)
- mark
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