On 2012-01-13 23:49, Paul M wrote: > I have an interesting idea. A lot of these consumer grade CPEs haven't > sufficient ROM/RAM to do dual stack. So, throw out the IPv4 stack > altogether. Get rid of the nat, port mapping, all the crappy broken > SIP ALGs etc, everything required to make room. > > Leave only IPv6, with stateful firewall. > > Then, have the ISP do some magic* to make IPv4 visible. > * I'll leave it as an exercise to those more sober and less tired to > solve that problem. But I guess it'd mean some clever DNS > capture/re-map for all locations which don't have AAAA addresses, > remap them to a local 6 to 4 "proxy". > > how hard can it be :-D
Well, yes, but there is now at least one relatively inexpensive CPE that does IPv6 and works. So the problem is going away at last.
