[184334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grzegorz Janoszka)
Fri Oct 2 03:43:54 2015
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From: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:43:44 +0200
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On 02/10/2015 04:52, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> If Time Warner (my ISP) put up IPv6 tomorrow, my firewall would no longer work. I could put up a pfsnse or vyatta box pretty quickly, but my off the shelf Cisco/Linksys home router has no ipv6 support hence the need to replace the hardware. There's no firmware update for it supporting ipv6 either. There would be millions of people in the same boat.
There should be a software for your box which supports IPv6 - DD-WRT or
anything similar. However I agree that it is not a solutions for
millions of Johnny Sixpacks.
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Grzegorz Janoszka
