On 10/02/11 09:48 PM, Jeremy wrote:
> 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 ;)

Teksavvy has a modified Tomato firmware for Linksys routers that does
both multilink ppp (bypasses Bell's throttling) and IPv6.
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