[afnog] XLAT646 deployment

[Mark Tinka]

On 7/5/21 10:41, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:

> Mikrotik is a good hardware, and cheap, however it is terrible for IPv6. Many problems and even mistakes, they confuse even RFCs ... it is very bad. I offered them helping even for free, no response.
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> However, most of the Mikrotik devices (low-mid-end) are just the same as low cost CPEs that you can buy in Aliexpress/Alibaba (such as those based on Mediatek), they even support OpenWRT. There are a few Ubiquity that also support that.
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> I just acquired 1 pcs of the CRS309 (8 x 10G SFP+ and 1 UTP Gig) and 2 pcs of the CRS305 (4 x 10G SFP+ and 1 UTP Gig) for my 10 Gig setup ... I was planing to use SwitchOS ... however the management interface doesn't support IPv6. How come, in year 2021???? So even now I've done the setup with IPv4-only management, I'm considering either swithing to RouterOS or finding if I can customize OpenWRT for them ...
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> Unfortunately, even if I tried to find equivalent devices to the CRS309 (150 euros) and the CRS305 (70 euros), price was not convenient. There is a new TP-Link close to the CRS309, but not yet available ... and I was not lucky to find those products from China.
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> So Mikrotik NO WAY, unless you will run only pure dual-stack ...

Like I said, if I was the boss, I'd clean house. But alas...

Mark.