[124495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 1 09:09:31 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BB3B651.1020607@csuohio.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:08:00 -0700
To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Michael Holstein wrote:
>=20
>> I checked the documentation for two models (Linux model and =
highest-end non-Linux model), and there's no mention of IPv6.
>>=20
>=20
> If this is a strictly "hardware" discussion, v6 "works" on a variety =
of
> models, albeit not with stock firmware.
> To wit : http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6
>=20
> This suggests that Cisco (et.al.) can release an "official" firmware
> image to support v6 on existing devices whenever they're sufficiently
> motivated to do so. I'd wager the only reason it hasn't been made GA =
is
> to limit the number of "pass-the-buck" support calls that start at =
$isp
> and get bounced back saying "we don't support that yet, call whoever
> makes your router".
>=20
Not necessarily. dd-wrt lacks the memory expense of the silly web
interface that Linksys is oh so fond of implementing in their consumer
grade boxen. I suspect that adding features to the Linksys code may
be a bit tighter on image and data space than dd-wrt's "stripped down"
efficiency.
Owen
