Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

The only ADSL one listed "Billion 7402R2" doesn't
_actually_ do IPv6 
yet, but it might if they release software for it!
Which would be nice as we sell them to customers and would
love to 
magically turn on IPv6 to them one day.

The only IPv6 ADSL router I'm aware of, that I can buy in
Australia, is 
the Cisco 857/877 series (which work quite nicely I have to
say 
(Some earlier Cisco 800 series ADSL routers will work, but
aren't 
currently available).

A friend of mine who works for a company that owns another
company that 
sells consumer CPE said "Well, this is a volume
business. Why release a 
feature that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could do
it later 
and sell you ANOTHER CPE to replace the one you just
bought?".

Bah.  And people wonder why I'm cynical.

MMC

Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:
> Looks like there's some kind of wiki here, too:
>
> http:
//www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE
>
> Frank
>   
-- 
Matthew Moyle-Croft - Internode/Agile - Networks
Level 5, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia
Email: mmcinternode.com.au  Web: http://www.on.net
Direct: +61-8-8228-2909		    Mobile: +61-419-900-366
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       "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, 
 but in escaping from the old ones" - John Maynard
Keynes

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> A friend of mine who works for a company that owns
another company that sells 
> consumer CPE said "Well, this is a volume
business. Why release a feature 
> that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could do it
later and sell you 
> ANOTHER CPE to replace the one you just bought?".

While it doesn't quality as out-of-the-box v6 support, a
Linksys WRT54G 
with a replacement image like Sveasoft Talisman does claim
to support it.

I haven't tested it yet on a guinea pig WRT54G, but I'll get
around to 
that at some point soon 

jms

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

>
> The only ADSL one listed "Billion 7402R2"
doesn't _actually_ do IPv6 yet, but 
> it might if they release software for it!
> Which would be nice as we sell them to customers and
would love to magically 
> turn on IPv6 to them one day.
>
> The only IPv6 ADSL router I'm aware of, that I can buy
in Australia, is the 
> Cisco 857/877 series (which work quite nicely I have to
say 
> (Some earlier Cisco 800 series ADSL routers will work,
but aren't currently 
> available).

Actually Cisco 850 series does not support IPv6, only 870
series. We 
tested earlier cisco models also: 830 series has ipv6
support. My 
colleague tested NetScreen routers: apart for the smallest
devices they 
have IPv6 support. However I think these devices are not
consumer 
equipments. I would call SO (Small Office) devices. The HO
(home office) 
devices are the ~ 50-100 USD devices - you rarely see
official ipv6 
support.....


Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network
Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F  4300 6F64 7B00 70EF
9882

>
> A friend of mine who works for a company that owns
another company that sells 
> consumer CPE said "Well, this is a volume
business. Why release a feature 
> that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could do it
later and sell you 
> ANOTHER CPE to replace the one you just bought?".
>
> Bah.  And people wonder why I'm cynical.
>
> MMC
>
> Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:
>> Looks like there's some kind of wiki here, too:
>> 
>> http:
//www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
> -- 
> Matthew Moyle-Croft - Internode/Agile - Networks
> Level 5, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000
Australia
> Email: mmcinternode.com.au  Web: http://www.on.net
> Direct: +61-8-8228-2909		    Mobile: +61-419-900-366
> Reception: +61-8-8228-2999          Fax:
+61-8-8235-6909
>
>      "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas,
but in escaping from the 
> old ones" - John Maynard Keynes
>
>

Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> 
> The only ADSL one listed "Billion 7402R2"
doesn't _actually_ do IPv6 
> yet, but it might if they release software for it!
> Which would be nice as we sell them to customers and
would love to 
> magically turn on IPv6 to them one day.

Hi MMC,

You might want to contribute to
<http://au.billion.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10042
>

and suggest to them that Internode wants this release for
their customers.

Mark.