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Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6
Julie188 writes "It's 2011, IPv4 addresses are officially exhausted, and the world's largest router maker, Cisco, still doesn't support IPv6 in its best-selling line of Linksys wireless routers. This is true even for the new E4200 router released just last month (priced at $180). The company has promised to add IPv6 to the E4200 by the spring. But it has not been specific about if and how it will offer an IPv6 upgrade to the millions of other Linksys routers currently running in homes and small businesses."
Its not like they need new hardware to achieve ipv6.
They need only offer a firmware upgrade.
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Considering most OS's out there support IPv6 (Vista, 7, Linux, Mac OS X) and most have it defaulted ON out of the box, why not add the capability?
Because it would cost Cisco money to do so, and they would get no financial benefit out of it. Those routers were never advertised with IPv6 support, so why should they be upgraded for free?
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This is really irresponsible on Cisco's part. I don't care about their monetary considerations, adding IPv6 support into their Linux derived routers wouldn't have been all that hard or costly for them.
Their refusal to enable IPv6 support is having a bad effect on IPv6 adoption. I don't think most people realise how bad IPv4 exhaustion can be. IPv4 exhaustion puts a cap on internet growth, which in turn retards economic growth.
Seriously Cisco, fuck you, just fuck you.
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Cheap gadgets not being future-proof I can understand, but this is a $180 gadget not being 10-years-ago-proof...
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When did people develop this sense of entitlement that every little cheap-ass consumer product they buy ought to be future-proof?
IPv6 has been out a lot longer than my router. It's not about being future-proof. It's about being present-proof.
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When did people develop this sense of entitlement that every little cheap-ass consumer product they buy ought to be future-proof?
We're not talking future-proof here. IPv6 is here, now, and yesterday.
Usually consumers have a reasonable expectation their product be present-proof. If it claims to be a router, it should meet current versions of the internet standards, in regards to node requirements for routers.