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> Why do so few (none?) retail stores carry ipv6-capable routers? Maybe because so few ISPs support ipv6? Why don't the ISPs support it? Cause no consumers have

> Why do so few (none?) retail stores carry ipv6-capable routers? Maybe because so few ISPs support ipv6? Why don't the ISPs support it? Cause no consumers have the hardware for it? I have a, um, Netgear WNR3500L, which is supposedly available at places like Office Depot and Walmart. It supports several kinds of IPv6, one of which is "6to4 tunnel" and which test-ipv6.com tells me works just fine on my Comcast connection. According to http://www.comcast6.net/ http://www.comcast6.net/ it looks like Comcast will be providing "real" IPv6 sometime this year.

wmf 16y ago
Note that any "IPv6 ready" router you buy probably does not support DS-Lite or DNS64 and thus will probably stop working in 2012.
- jacquesm 16y ago
  Firmware upgrade?
  - wmf 16y ago
    Good luck.
  - ay 16y ago
    6rd is an improvisation on the motive of 6to4 and ISATAP: you have IPv4 prefix which you use as a carrier for the tunneled traffic, the synthesized IPv6 addresses have a part within them that allows to know which IPv4 within your domain to forward the tunneled traffic to. If the IPv6 is outside of your 6rd domain - then the tunneled traffic is sent to the border relay, which decapsulates it and sends to the rest of the IPv6 internet. More details are in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5969 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5969 if you are interested. Should be implementable with the firmware upgrade - assuming the memory allows for IPv6 code altogether - and, that the supplier decides to do the update (as opposed to shipping a new model). A whole lot of el-cheapo boxes are supported by openwrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start And there exists a 6rd-enabled image: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=123059 https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=123059 So it is not all that catastrophic, IMO.

wmf 16y ago

Note that any "IPv6 ready" router you buy probably does not support DS-Lite or DNS64 and thus will probably stop working in 2012.

jacquesm 16y ago
Firmware upgrade?
- wmf 16y ago
  Good luck.
- ay 16y ago
  6rd is an improvisation on the motive of 6to4 and ISATAP: you have IPv4 prefix which you use as a carrier for the tunneled traffic, the synthesized IPv6 addresses have a part within them that allows to know which IPv4 within your domain to forward the tunneled traffic to. If the IPv6 is outside of your 6rd domain - then the tunneled traffic is sent to the border relay, which decapsulates it and sends to the rest of the IPv6 internet. More details are in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5969 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5969 if you are interested. Should be implementable with the firmware upgrade - assuming the memory allows for IPv6 code altogether - and, that the supplier decides to do the update (as opposed to shipping a new model). A whole lot of el-cheapo boxes are supported by openwrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start And there exists a 6rd-enabled image: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=123059 https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=123059 So it is not all that catastrophic, IMO.