Switches and IPv6

Bill Campbell linux-sxs at celestial.com
Tue Sep 30 13:45:20 PDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008, David A. Bandel wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Just bought and installed a new D-Link POE switch and guess what -- as
>far as I'm concerned it's obsolete.  Bloody POS won't pass IPv6 (i.e.,
>won't pass IP).  I'm amazed.  And D-Link confirms their brand new
>switch won't pass IP, and they don't plan to fix it.
>
>I have garbage consumer-grade dumb switches that all pass IPv6.
>Anyone have a recommendation for a managed POE switch that will pass
>IPv6?  The only ones I've found that mention IPv6 start at $3k.  I
>need 24-48 ports.

Do the HP ProCurve switches handle IPv6?  Looking through the
manual for  ProCurve 1800-8G, I don't see any mention of it.

Bill
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