[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Mark Doorey]

Their is a CPE testing Logo that a lot of companies seem to be behind.
This is at
http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/logoholders.php
with testing suites at
http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/testsuites/

Mark Dooréy
If you go online unprotected you are a bloody idiot
Member of SMBiT Professionals www.smbitpro.org

On 14/03/2012 10:25 AM, Nicholas Meredith wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Does that Netcomm and other gear in that same leage actually support 
> v6 properly? Does it run a v6 DNS masquerade? Will RA correctly assign 
> v6 DNS to hosts? Is DHCP6 supported? Simply routing v6 isn't enough, 
> they need to be able to operate 100% v6 only, and I'd be surprised if 
> it does that. Billions and a few others maybe, anyone got more 
> accurate details on excactly what is still incomplete with CPE for 
> home/soho users?
>
> -ndm
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org 
> <mailto:newton at atdot.dotat.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:21:29AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
>     > Or telling their customers what they need to buy so they can connect
>     > over IPv6 when they turn it on.   Add to that the CPE router vendors
>     > that don't have IPv6 support in low end boxes yet.  It is
>     appearing in
>     > high end boxes.
>
>     And low end boxes.
>
>     Billion 740x series:  Dual stack out of the box, software upgrade
>     available for owners of equipment shipped as v4-only, provided they
>     have enough RAM.
>
>     Netcomm NB6plus4W:  An ADSL2+ home router with WiFi available for
>     $80 retail, can't get much lower-end than this.  IPv6 for about the
>     last year.
>
>     And for the geeks, of course, anything that runs OpenWRT has
>     supported dual-stack since forever.
>
>     "Lack of support in low-end CPE" is no longer an excuse for not doing
>     it.
>
>     If your low-end CPE vendor doesn't do it, then "lack of support in
>     low-end CPE" is an excellent reason to change vendors to one that
>     does.
>
>      - mark
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