LOL!! You almost made me spray beer out my nose. :-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Phil Pennock > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 6:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] IPv6 and NAT > > 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 > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
