In looking into ways to deploy NAT64/DNS64 on the network, I ran into a couple of interesting products which would make either a home migration to IPv6 or an Enterprise migration to IPv6 easier.
The first product is the D-Link DIR-825 wireless LAN router for home users. The router is IPv6 Ready and supports 6to4 and 6in4 tunneling. This router would alow someone at home to run dual stack on their home network and connect either to hosts on the IPv4 Internet or the IPv6 Internet automatically. Retail price at Digitec is CHF 113.00.
The second product is the F5 BigIP load balancer. This product has an IPv6 Gateway functionality which supports NAT64/DNS64 to help with client and server migrations within an enterprise. Since this product is in use as the standard loadbalancer at my current enployer, this could be a viable path to move customers to IPv6. I found an interesting white paper on their migration scenario: Controlling your Migration to IPv6.
Finally, I have been reading up on the Vyatta network operating system. It would seem like a lot of companies are interested in using this OS in their products to provide base tunneling, routing and security capabilities without having to develop them themselves. Citrix is using this software as the basis for their Netscaler Cloud Bridge solution and Riverbed is using it to add routing and firewalling capabilities to their Steelhead appliances. Since Vyatta has an open source version wich runs on VMWare Player, I think I will give it a try and see how it works. It should provide full routing functionality, firewalling and its latest version (6.1) is IPv6 certified and may even support NAT64. If that is the case, then I can give that a try as well.
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