[125587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohacsi Janos)
Tue Apr 20 03:38:34 2010
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:37:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu>
To: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BCCBB08.5040206@consolejunkie.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Leen Besselink wrote:
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> I actually think the razor thin margins make it less likely.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, one of the reasons firmware updates are not
> available from a number of vendors/products, is because the small
> boxes don't have enough ROM and/or RAM.
>
> The ROM is to small to hold an extra stack (or other features) and/or
> the RAM is to small to handle the connection tracking for the larger
> addresses. Because people want a stateful firewall, right ?
In a very low end devices maybe. Mid range devices there is enough flash
and RAM. I have been using openwrt on various devices (asus, dlink,
lynksys) with ipv6 for more than 3 years.
Best Regards,
Janos Mohacsi
