[126293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alastair Johnson)
Mon May 10 23:27:02 2010
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:26:36 +0800
From: Alastair Johnson <aj@sneep.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100511002909.GA1109404@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris Adams wrote:
>
> How are ISPs that still offer dialup going to handle dialup and IPv6? I
> know the TNTs don't do it, and I don't think most of the old equipment
> in use in many places does.
Most likely the customers still on dialup are not going to worry about
IPv6 - if their systems even support it. In fact several operators I
have spoken to have considered their legacy dialup plant as a good place
to test Carrier Grade NAT in a low impact manner.
Couple it with some kind of ALG (transparent proxy + DNS tricks) for
IPv6-only sites and you have something which might work.
If you really need native IPv6 support for dialup then using a legacy
NAS as a dial-terminator LAC and tunneling to an IPv6 capable LNS might
be a solution for you.
aj
