[137639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 17 16:04:30 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110217203020.7E40EA488B2@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:59:54 -0800
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash
> to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra
> code. This should be minimal. A extra PPP/DHCP option and a check
> box to enable (default) / disable setting it.
>
Reflashing most CPE amounts to forklifting. The difference between
having them bring their CPE in to be reflashed or rolling a truck
to do same vs. replacing the CPE will, in most cases, actually render
replacing the CPE cheaper.
> It can be deployed incrementally.
>
So can replacing the CPE, but, neither is a particularly attractive
alternative for many providers.
Owen
