Adrian would love to hear more about this box might be a good presentation for the next UKNOF ?
Sent from my iPhone On 14 Jan 2012, at 09:28, "Adrian Kennard" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
