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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote:
On 19/01/12 09:47, Gordon Henderson wrote:Ah, heres a list of ISPs: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ipv6 AAISP Clara.net Entanet Exa Networks Goscomb Technologies IDNet Webtapestry So a few to choose from, but a complete abssense of the big players. If only the likes of PlusNet would spend money on IPv6 than their silly TV adverts!!!That is all very well but, according to my researches on this, very few routers are ready for Ipv6. Or am I missing something here?
Not missing anything - and that's a real catch-22 situation right now too.
The Billion Bipak 7800N can be re-flashed with a firmawre image that support IPv6 - AAISP were shipping them for a while, now they've moved to the Technicolor TG582n which comes with IPv6 as standard (and is much cheaper!)
The only other solution is a separate modem (e.g. Draytek 120) and router - either a ready made box such as the MikroTics or a Linux box you put together yourself - although the other alternatives are Tomato or OpenWRT which require an exiting supported router and the ability to re-flash them. I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones I know of.
There is no reason any router that's based on Linux can't do IPv6 other than the manufacturers lazyness to implement it.
It's just going to take time - years probably and the Internet will *never* be fully IPv4 free - at least I reckon not in my lifetime...
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