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[Jammrock]

Will the DGL-4500 be IPv6 capable via a future firmware update?

I work for a web hosting company and manage our ARIN IP space.  ARIN is really trying to get people to jump on the IPv6 bandwagon (IPv4 has about 2.5-3 years left before the space is exhausted), so I am starting a project to begin an IPv6 rollout.  Both myself and our main network engineer use a DGL-4500, and work fromhome, and it will become imperative to begin testing IPv6 soon.  We would both like to do so from behind our DGL-4500's.

Thanks!

[Lycan]

I don't believe that will work.
I'm not sure, but I believe only the switch is IPv6 compliant.

[RamGuy]

That's wrong, IPv6 is completely firmware based.

I can even get IPv6 on my old WRT54GL thanks to good firmwares as DD-WRT and OpenWRT.

[Fatman]

Was that model a DGL-4500 or another product entirely?

Just because a competitors product allows flashing with an open platform does not mean that the platform we are using (or that Linksys was originally using for that matter) can be extended to support IPv6.  We are restricted to discussion of D-Link provided firmware on this board, so a discussion of what is possible with our software is the same as what is possible with the hardware.

Thats like saying that every product every manufacturer in the marketplace can product can do anything a fully fledged Linux server can do because there are products on the market that run Linux.

[Lycan]

The DGL-4500 is an IPoS based Ubicom platform. Unless you know something Ubicom doesn't I would go with what they say. Straight from the horses mouth, as they say.

[Jammrock]

I have a DGL-4500, the post a few above is talking about a Linksys product and the open source DD-WRT projets for it.

But none of this answers the question at hand ... and Ubicom doesn't handle an OEM's customers questions that I can find, so would it be possible for a D-link employee to take up IPv6 with Ubicom?  According to their product site it could be possible, it would just require a new/updated networking stack and controls in the GUI, but the question is whether D-link would push Ubicom to do so...

http://www.ubicom.com/technology/

http://www.ubicom.com/technology/softwarekit.php

http://www.ubicom.com/docs/ProductBriefSDK.pdf

btw, IPoS = IP over satellite, ipOS = Ubicom's application OS

[Lycan]

The fact is that unit and it's current implementation of D-Link approved code does not support IPv6 through the NAT, it is true that it is a extension of the instruction set, however we lack the hooks or the ability to write the code required to make those changes. Furthermore other then the obscure tester for personal/business use, there's no real drive for D-Link to invest time and effort in this as we have many other tasks that take precedence.

Jammrock,
If you would like to inquire with our support staff about custom firmware for this end, please feel free to do so, I believe we have a SOP for exactly that.

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=37414.0

[RamGuy]

Nevertheless, IPv6 is something which is in the firmware, and not depended on the hardware.

It's up to Ubicom to make the firmware compatible with IPv6, if they want to they got the opportunity, in other words it's not hardware restricted, but firmware restricted.


If they had made the ubicom code open-source, there wouldn't have been any problems for us to make a IPv6 compatible firmware.