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As we all know, IPv4 ran out early February and it's becoming clear that IPv6 implementation is quite important to more people and companies, especially those in the Telco/ISP business and large customer facing companies like Google, etc.
It is also quite clear that hardware manufacturers are still not pushing IPv6 adoption into their new units and even software. The most common being firewalls.
Pick any main firewall supplier for typical home or small business use and you will most likely find it hard to find any of the cheap end units that support IPv6 and usually the high end units would support IPv6.
Even in the software market it seems firewalls again fail to support IPv6. When linux has been supporting IPv6 for a long time, you would expect that by now contributors and developers on packaged linux firewalls were already working towards it but I had a hard time finding any info on when it's due to be supported in popular ready made distros for example.
IPCOP - no support
Endian - no support until sometime in version 3 (current v2.4.1)
PfSense(FreeBSD) - implemented but better support in 2.0
So in the linux world, you seem to have to write/build your own without a gui to get your migration testing started.
I'm sure in the next couple of years we'll start to see more and more hardware and software adopt the move to IPv6 as there are more questions asking about it and more demand is there.
George Vieira
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