[139923] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Sat Apr 23 08:11:35 2011
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:09:09 +0100
In-Reply-To: <77FA13A2-5291-46D8-B6F0-6B7821E1710F@gmail.com>
From: "Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: "Rogelio" <scubacuda@gmail.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Is there any clear understanding of what "supporting IPv6" means?
>I recently was told by a vendor that they "supported IPv6", and then
when I went >to go configure an IPv6 address, it was, of course, IPv4. I
asked how they >supported that, and they said that they "supported it"
because they could "pass >IPv6" traffic.
>Well...duh!
Yeah this seems to be a common problem. Vendors who have equipment that
does not support a full IPv6 feature set comparable to the IPv4
functionality usually do the "it'll pass Ipv6" in which case my 10Mb/s
hub from 1996 is IPv6 ready...
Then there are vendors who offer a good IPv6 feature set but who only
have IPv4 for the management. Some DPI vendors spring to mind for this.
So.. caveat emptor!
--
Leigh Porter
UK Broadband
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