Most IPv6-certified Home Network Gear Buggy

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 4, 2011 @11:54AM from the dying-from-not-surprise dept.

Julie188 writes "The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab held an IPv6 consumer electronics Plugfest on Feb. 14 and CableLabs has scheduled two more for this year. UNH is tight-lipped about the results, but the sad fact is that most home routers and DSL/cable modems certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are so full of implementation bugs that they can't be used by ISPs for IPv6 field trials. And that's not helping the Internet have a smooth, fast transition to IPv6. Though OpenWRT and DD-WRT solve the problem, ISPs point out that requiring the average consumer to upgrade their own firmware, because the manufacturer can't do IPv6 right, isn't a practical solution."

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Looks familiar by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2011-03-04 12:04 · Score: 4, Interesting

Okay, this may be a new article on the subject - but it's repeating exactly the same thing we've talked about ad nauseum before.
Apple's routers are fine with regard to IPv6, and D-Link's routers are fine as well; it's just that, once again, the reporter says "most home routers" instead of using the brand name Cisco.
Wait - is this actually a new article?

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