On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:30PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:17 +0000, Tim Chown wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > > > > Depends on the type of home user ;) > > > Nevertheless, most homes currently only consist of maybe 3 ethernet > > > segments (wired, wireless, office or something) and maybe a max of 20 > > > hosts. Changing the IP's of those hosts should not be a problem even if > > > you had to do it manually. Most of these NAT boxes come with built-in > > > DHCP support, hopefully the will come with IPv6 and RA and maybe DHCPv6 > > > support too in the near future (Yamaha has them already :) > > > > Or you just modify a Linksys router :) > > Ack, nicely turn that NAT box into a real router by flashing it with a > This is unfortunately not something that most people dare to do. Then > again, I know that quite a lot of people 'upgraded' their SpeedTouch > Home's to Pro's for somewhat the same purpose. And for that matter a lot > of people upgrade their Xboxes, PS2's etc. There is always somebody who > can do this around. I didn't say that your mother could do this, but given that some amateurs have already modified the Linksys to do v6 then it would not be difficult for Cisco/Linksys to do so in a short timeframe, if they chose to. As for NAT, then v4+NAT dual-stack IPv6 will be very common. -- Tim _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf