On 11-02-10 09:43 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:21:17PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
Hi Hendrik
What about all the routers out there? Would not the ISP do the translation
from ipv6 to ipv4 for you? And yes, you should still have your static ip
address.
That would have been nice. But I gather some of the higher-level
protocols are different, using pecific features of IPv6, and protocol
translation may not be trivial. That said, it's probably somewhat
feasible to so a somewhat decent job. The basic problem is that the
IPv6 inventors had not planned interoperability between IPv4 and
IPv6. They had some idea that everyone would gradually acquire
dual-stack systems that could operate in both modes. But in real-life
terms, that hasn't happened. Oh, countries who were originally
allocated a critical shortage of class A networks have already gone and
done this because they had to. But North America is a holdout.
And the annoying thing is that most current OS's, such as Windows, OS/X
Macs, Linuxes already are IPv6-capable. It's the ISPs that are the
bottleneck.
I actually don't know which routers do IPv6 and which don't. I suspect
in any case that it's just a firmware change. If the manufacturer still
suupports that router model, anyway. Otherwise firmware might be hard
to come by.
-- hendrik
OpenWRT can do this, and the routers I mentioned a few months back
(netgear WNDR3700 and another linux based model) could handle quite alot
of traffic load. These routers already run a modified openwrt firmware.
I have a few of them, they are very nice and fun, USB port too ;)
Jeremy
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