That said, even Cisco's own marketing department agreed that buyers of new network gear should insist on IPv6. Routers that can only handle IPv4 addresses will still be able to access the Internet for years, and perhaps reach new native IPv6 sites, if Carrier Grade NAT can be counted on and if it doesn't cause more problems than it's worth (more on this). That's not a practical task to ask the typical consumer to do, but when consumers get IPv6, it will be part of their consumer premises equipment from their ISPs. ![]() Most Network World readers know that they can wipe out the vendor's firmware and install OpenWRT or DD-WRT and get IPv6 that way. Maybe it's not important to most consumers if their pre-2011 home routers get IPv6 or not. There was no word then, and there still isn't any now, if other late-model wireless routers will get a free IPv6 firmware upgrade. (See story: Cisco Linksys gear targets boom in home use of 802.11n wireless nets) ![]() Cisco promised that free firmware upgrades for the rest of the new gear would trickle out through the fall. Obviously, the firmware upgrade for the high-end E4200 was MIA too. In April, Linksys released a blitz of seven new products, none of them with IPv6 support. ![]() In February, I wrote about the missing IPv6 in Cisco's Linksys gear and was told by Cisco that it was coming in April for its high-end E4200.
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