On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Ted Hardie wrote:
Does anyone involved have enough pull with NAT vendors to get it recognized so it can be deployed?
By definition, no. The vast majority of residential/soho NATS currently in-use are effectively not upgradeable; the support contract for their firmware between the "brand" vendor and the actual manufacturer lapsed years ago, and as a consequence, their software isn't being updated. Ever again. I personally own a dozen or so devices in this category, from brands like Linksys, Netgear, Apple, D- Link, and others.
The only reason anybody can consider IPv6 NAT support as an option is that we figure everybody that wants v6 is going to have to buy a new NATrouter anyhow. Of course, 1) that's a major barrier to v6 deployment in general, and 2) there's effectively only a six-month window to get new features into that generation of products before it too is frozen by aging in the installed base.
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