[141408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 8 03:12:20 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110608041503.A4CFE1075035@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:07:26 -0700
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
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> In message =
<AF24AE2D4A4D334FB9B667985E2AE763A3AC06@mail1-sea.office.spectrumnet
> .us>, John van Oppen writes:
>> I was wondering the same thing... we have v6 enabled to about 700 =
users i=3D
>> n our native Ethernet to the home deployment here in Seattle. =
Unfortunat=3D
>> ely, user routers don't seem to often support v6 resulting in only =
about 2-=3D
>> 8% of users in most buildings using it, and most of those are just =
people p=3D
>> lugged directly into the wall jacks we provide without routers. I =
wonder =3D
>> how long it will take for everyone to upgrade their home routers.
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>> John
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> If all the home CPE router vendors stopped shipping IPv4 only boxes,
> not that long. At the moment the price point for IPv6 CPE routers
> is still 2-3x the IPv4 only boxes when you can find one though not
> all of that difference is IPv6. The IPv6 boxes often have multiple
> radio and other extras. This shows that CPE vendors still see IPv6
> as something *extra* and not something that should be *standard*.
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The D-Link DIR series v6 capables are not actually more than about a 10%
premium over the corresponding ipv4-only competition.
I see them in computer stores fairly regularly these days.
Owen
