On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 19:02 -0400, George, Wes wrote:
Similarly, Belkin’s home routers appear to support IPv6, but that doesn’t appear in the specs or features list on their site when I just checked it.
There's also an issue of what "IPv6 support" actually means. A few years ago it meant "has IPv6 printed on the box" :-) Now it means - what? For wireless or IPv4 support in such devices, the whole side of the box is covered with RFC numbers and protocol names (or the marketing names thereof). Even RIP gets a mention! But on the matter of what exactly the IPv6 support is, the box is often silent or very terse. Which makes buying a home device for use in an IPv6 environment very tricky - essentially you have to either spend hours researching, or you have to make sure the store will accept the product back if it doesn't work as you need it to. Someone who knows exactly what they are talking about can ask e.g., "does it support DHCPv6-PD?", but that's effectively impossible for most people - they can't articulate the actual features needed, they just want it to "just work". Sigh, one of many barriers still to fall... Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A