l2tp support on OS's Re: [v6tc] Re: Tunneling and Transition Drafts

[Jeroen Massar <[e-mail]>]

Short summary first, what supports it:
 - Windows XP SP2 does not have it
 - Windows Longhorn will have it (they say),
   but out in 2007 or most likely later and then needs to be deployed
   and be fed to the users, who will stick with XP for some time anyway.
 - *BSD
 - Linux
 - Most CPE's (Cisco/Yahama/...)

But Windows is a huge market for most ISP's...

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:21 -0400, W. Mark Townsley wrote:
> 
> Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > 
> > Nevertheless I'll put it somewhere on that big list, lets see how many parties
> > get canceled this week...
> 
> I think a decent GPL or free IPv6 PPP for Windows XP would be a service to the 
> community in general. Please write one.

Some other people convinced me and I actually was under the impression
that L2TP would not work over NAT thus I need to make up for it. It also
allows quite a number of scenarios to be solved more easily.
I don't really like GPL but that is off topic for sure. Well the night
reading is printed out ;) <hint> Let's make L2TP a viable option.

> >>In the end, a lot of implementations may actually be CPEs rather than hosts, in 
> >>which case having the linux implementation helps.
> > 
> > 
> > Linux supports it, but not too many people want to actually touch their gear.
> > and for most of those people Linux is still scary.
> 
> For a CPE? Linksys uses Linux.

I know, but I meant the original image, as customers might still be
holding back on using a non-vendor image. It would thus be really nice
to have images that defaultly are IPv6 enabled, and I mean this for
*all* the products that are available.

The OpenWRT images, with which I flashed my box, indeed support IPv6 and
getting a lt2p client/daemon on it should not be an issue indeed.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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