On 2010-04-19 at 07:25 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > At present, the printer and toaster are safe from the Internet because they > are not reachable from the internet. There's not a lot of reason for the > toaster to support IPv6, but even if it does, there's nothing forcing it to > take an internet routable IPv6 address.
What, you don't want to have a cloud-based Twitter aggregation service source the day's dominant image memes to set them as the patterns to toast into your bread each morning? /me runs Hrm, money opportunity there, if you don't make the choice of remote image provider choosable by the purchaser. Themed toasters, updating from the Net. Star Wars, Disney ... oh yes, way to get those toaster sales up. Suddenly, I'm worried this might actually happen. RAM is cheap, can always make sure that 14 days worth of images are downloaded each time, to ride out connectivity glitches, but that would just give a new meaning to the term "stale toast". > If it did support IPv6, the use case is pretty ... uncommon ... but still > nice to know you could if you want to. If you wanted to, check your ink > levels from your mobile device while you're at Staples looking at a good > deal on ink. Or whatever. In Japan, the big printer/photocopier vendors, who do the usual "rent out the equipment on service contracts" thing are somewhat worried about their ability to do remote diagnostics on equipment once multiple layers of NAT become common. Thus the big push there which has seen the big office electronics equipment manufacturers get behind IPv6 and promote it, with certification systems for equipment and vendors, etc. Eg, this article from *2006* about Panasonic having 40 IPv6-capable office products: http://www.tmcnet.com/news/2006/02/02/1336933.htm And the better non-Japanese companies are making sure they're not left behind. Some quick plugging of manufacturer names into search_engine($manufacturer IPv6 printers) confirms Panasonic, HP, Toshiba, Canon, Lexmark & Samsung all support IPv6 on at least some models. This was a non-exhaustive cursory glance through some results. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
