[162641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Muller)
Sat Apr 27 22:22:25 2013
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:21:43 -0400
From: Erik Muller <erikm@buh.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <517B608A.9060101@jima.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/27/13 1:22 , Jima wrote:
> On 2013-04-26 23:08, shawn wilson wrote:
>> There's ways around it for most software but old jetdirect stuff,
>> switches, routers, ip control systems. Things are going to be 6to4 for a
>> while. In fact I won't be surprised to see little hardware boxes that do
>> it for $30 or so (probably late with this idea but have no need to know).
>
> I hope you mean NAT64; 6to4 is, at best, iffy to support. I do like the
> $30 hardware device idea, though -- I haven't seen anything like that yet.
The idea's been done, eg http://www.gogo6.com/gogoware/gogocpe.
Not quite down to $30 there, but it'd be fairly easy to roll custom
firmware to do 6rd or similar on a raspberry pi or beaglebone black at
about that price point. Finding the business case and figuring out how to
support it is the part that gets tricky.
-e
