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 ·Comcast
| Well, well, well! This actually confirms several announcements by Comcast over the past six months regarding their plans for IPv6. The problem with IPv6 deployment outside of business is non-computer devices (game consoles in particular, but also including MIDs) that are non-IPv6-compliant/ready.
I signed up for the trial, as I've been kicking around IPv6 here for almost a year (first via Hurricane Electric's free tunnelbroker, and now with SixxS' free tunnel service). |
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| What is likely to happen is that your home router will be IPv6 but will still use IPv4 on the interior side. That will make the transition easier for consumers. Still, we would all need to buy a router with that capability. |
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·Comcast
| said by jjeffeory:What is likely to happen is that your home router will be IPv6 but will still use IPv4 on the interior side. That will make the transition easier for consumers. Still, we would all need to buy a router with that capability. That capability is in quite a few home routers today (albeit with third-party firmware for the most part), including several routers from Linksys and Netgear (including some models supplied to Comcast as part of the Wireless Networking promotion, and several older routers, such as the WRT54GS V.2), so that is mostly a non-issue. The computers are even less of an issue, as I pointed out. |
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1 edit | It may be in some routers, but the majority of routers older than a few years aren't going to have this feature. The last time I bought a router was 5 or so years ago. The firmware has been updated several times, but there's no ipv6 support. I dunno, some people just don't want to keep upgrading ALL of their equipment every 3 years or so. Most people buy a tv or other consumer electronic device and keep it for at least 10 or so years... They expect it to work for a very long time and don't want to keep giving corporations money for "the same thing" ( from their perspective). |
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·Comcast
| If you are referring to the Linksys WRT54GS, it supports IPv6 tunnels, but not with Linksys firmware. The WRT54G and GS (those that do NOT run VxWorks) can alternatively run Tomato, DD-WRT, or OpenWRT firmware, all of which support IPv6 (I have a V.2 GS that I personally upgraded to OpenWRT; the router itself dates to 2005, but the firmware is less than two months old). |
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 jjmb
join:2009-12-01
USA | reply to jjeffeory
said by jjeffeory:What is likely to happen is that your home router will be IPv6 but will still use IPv4 on the interior side. That will make the transition easier for consumers. Still, we would all need to buy a router with that capability. Actually one of our trials in Phase #2, the native, dual stack will leverage home routers/gateways that support native, dual stack into the home not just to the edge of the home.
As we approach this phase will share additional information.
John |
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