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Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:00:52 -0500 (CDT)
And this may trigger a refresh on routers, as people old or refurbed equipment find they need to change. The whole reason for the inertia against going to IPv6 is "it ain't broke, so I not gonna 'fix' it."Yea, well, it would be nice if upgrading existing home routers remained legal, so we could, indeed add ipv6 capability and more. http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/
That's not guaranteed to happen, and, I'd note, it has little-to-nothing to do with existing home 'routers' but rather wifi gear. While many home users do have a combined NAT gateway and wireless access point, the vast majority of them are not running custom firmware and would just buy a new device anyways. Part of the real problem here is that manufacturers have generally treated devices like home 'routers' as abandonware. Usually there is just barely enough RAM and flash on these things to hold whatever firmware the company was intending to ship, and sometimes they would not even see any firmware updates ever made available as the software dev team would move on to the next device. This is the same thing we here on this list should all be pretty scared of as the IoT stormfront comes this way. You're unlikely to be able to add code to handle IPv6 to a Belkin F5D6231, which IIRC used some unusual SoC to provide its modest services on something like 1MB of flash and 2MB RAM (it's been a decade so the particulars may be wrong). Only in the relatively rare cases where a manufacturer left a lot of extra room (WRT54GL, etc) are you likely to have sufficient extra space to do updates to gear. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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- RE: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero, (continued)
- RE: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Steve Mikulasik (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Dave Taht (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Franck Martin via NANOG (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Jared Mauch (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Eric Tykwinski (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Michael Thomas (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Jared Mauch (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Tony Finch (Sep 25)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Dave Bell (Sep 25)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero Joe Greco (Sep 25)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero John Curran (Sep 24)
- Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero John Curran (Sep 26)