[124437] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk - iName.com)
Wed Mar 31 17:52:40 2010
From: "Frank Bulk - iName.com" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Joel Jaeggli'" <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BB3BEDB.2040806@bogus.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:51:59 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I confirmed with Linksys' PR person that there is no IPv6 -- if someone =
sees different, please let us know.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@bogus.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:30 PM
To: frnkblk@iname.com
Cc: 'Nick Hilliard'; NANOG
Subject: Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
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.
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> Frank
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:16 PM
> To: Joel Jaeggli
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
>=20
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Nick
>=20
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