[124436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Mar 31 17:31:10 2010
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:30:03 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: frnkblk@iname.com
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It's not in the wrt610n docs either yet the code was unambiguously in
the box, complete with 6to4 that your couldn't shut off.
On 03/31/2010 01:26 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
> I checked the documentation for two models (Linux model and highest-end non-Linux model), and there's no mention of IPv6.
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:16 PM
> To: Joel Jaeggli
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
>
> On 31/03/2010 21:07, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> the current wrt610n supports ipv6 I failed to see why a slightly
>> updated and rebranded one would not as well.
>
> because for low-end CPE devices like this, a tiny change in the model
> number (e.g. v1->v2) might mean a completely different internal system,
> with different host CPU, different ethernet controller, etc. You're not in
> any way guaranteed the same sort of software compatibility when moving from
> one device version to another, particularly for less well supported
> features like ipv6.
>
> Nick
>
>
