Re: router with ipv6

"Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 28/01/2010 14:17, mikeyhsd wrote:
>> anyone know of a wireless router that provides ipv4 and ipv6 support.
>> looks like my linksys (WRT160N) only provides ipv4.
>>

Just wondering what your situation or scenario is that requires ipv6 support
?

ps56k wrote:
> "Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> On 28/01/2010 14:17, mikeyhsd wrote:
>>> anyone know of a wireless router that provides ipv4 and ipv6
>>> support. looks like my linksys (WRT160N) only provides ipv4.
>>>
>
> Just wondering what your situation or scenario is that requires ipv6
> support ?

One that I have heard about is Windows 7 by default requires a router that
supports ipv6 if you want to create a Homegroup and connect say a wireless
laptop to a wired PC and share resources. True there are registry hacks
that can combat this but with the right router it's not needed. Check out
this link for more info on W7 Homegroups and ipv6:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...7-a01847c37d5f

Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, mikeyhsd
chose the tried and tested strategy of:

> have NO specific NEED at this time.
>
> keep seeing warning that IPV4 addresses are about exhausted.

It feels like there have been warnings about IPv4 exhaustion on a monthly
basis for the past ten years. Apparently in China, some internet users are
behind many layers of NAT, so we'll know we've hit a crunch point when ISPs
are doing that on a widespread basis in the west.

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Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, Moe Trin
chose the tried and tested strategy of:

>>Apparently in China, some internet users are behind many layers of
>>NAT

> I'm not sure that I'd pick on China (or India) - as both are
> comparatively undeveloped, but multi-layer NAT doesn't sound very
> likely.

The statistics you supply are interesting, but don't help me estimate
whether the average number of NAT layers as supplied on internet connections
by ISPs higher in China than in the UK. Having thought some more, it does
seem less likely as there are only so many people you can have behind a
single public IP address [depending on their propensity to open connections,
and keep them open].

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