Giving away code and hardware is quite the opposite of lucrative, let me assure you.
Right. I looked at your message and it does not parse very clearly. Given that it is odd for people to offer to give away boxes, let alone quote a price for the box that they are giving away, I thought you were advertising something for sale.
It moves about 20Mbit/s on a Soekris box, probably more. If you're doing more 6to4 and Teredo traffic than that, then well done. How fast can you do it on a Cisco (or, whatever) box? Someone lend me some hardware for a week and I'd be more than happy to test and publish numbers on that.
It would be good for people to do some performance testing of all the various bits and pieces. And publish all that test info on the ARIN wiki. Perhaps you could test the hardware that you have and document the test environment so that people with Juniper, Cisco, etc. can do the same tests and post their numbers. If people are interested in alternatives to Soekris, then http://www.linuxdevices.com has pointers to tons of embedded systems which are quite capable of running FreeBSD as well as Linux.
I've actually given this Soekris hardware away to several ISPs here in New Zealand, sponsored by InternetNZ.
One wonders if there is any organization in the USA that might sponsor similar giveaways to ISPs. Just how much importance does the Federal government attach to IPv6 transition? Has anyone talked to their Congressional reps about tax relief for the special one-time costs of enabling IPv6?
I've also got several slide packs with this stuff in it, if people want those. I believe they're reachable via the NZNOG website somewhere (nznog.org, I think).
They can now also find it by looking at the wiki page <http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/IPv6_Presentations_and_Documents> with your name on it. It was a full-day tutorial on all aspects of IPv6 deployment. --Michael Dillon