• Cisco 850 series routers don’t have IPv6 as advertised

    by  • 3rd August 2007 • Uncategorized

    I am in need of replacing a router with a more feature reach model. So I am going to Cisco website, looking for router with all my required features ( wifi, adsl, ipv6 ) and I have found that 857W will do it and it’s not to pricey.

    Here is a features table which I found there :

    Feature

    Description

    Routing Protocols and General Router Features

    • Routing Information Protocol (RIPv1 and RIPv2)

    • Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)

    • Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT)

    • RFC 1483/2684

    • Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) (Cisco 857)

    • PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

    • 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol

    • Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) server/relay/client

    • Access control lists (ACLs)

    • Generic routing encapsulation (GRE)

    • Dynamic DNS Support for Cisco IOS

    Recommended Number of Users

    10

    IPv6 Features

    • IPv6 addressing architecture

    • IPv6 name resolution

    • IPv6 statistics

    • IPv6 translation-transport packets between IPv6-only and IPv4-only endpoints

    • ICMPv6

    • IPv6 DHCP

    DSL and ATM Features (DSL Model Only)

    • ATM Unspecified Bit Rate (UBR), Constant Bit Rate (CBR), and Variable Bit Rate/non-real-time (VBR-nrt)

    • ATM Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Support for F5 Continuity Check; segment and end-to-end loopback; and Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI) support

    • 8 virtual circuits

    Security Features

    • Stateful Inspection Firewall

    • Hardware-accelerated Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) for IPSec

    • Hardware-accelerated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for IPSec

    • IPSec 3DES termination/initiation

    • IPSec pass-through

    • 5 VPN Tunnels

    • Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) pass-through

    • L2TP pass-through

    • Advanced Application Inspection and Control

    • E-mail Inspection Engine

    • No Service Password Recovery

    • HTTP Inspection Engine

    • System Logging-EAL4 Certification Enhancements

    Quality of Service (QoS) Features

    • Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ)

    • Policy-based routing (PBR)

    • Per-VC queuing

    • Per-VC traffic shaping

    Management Features

    • Cisco SDM

    • Cisco Configuration Express

    • Cisco Configuration Engine support

    • DSL firmware update from Flash

    • Cisco Service Assurance Agent (SAA)

    • Telnet, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)v3, CLI, and HTTP management

    • Out-of-band management with external modem through virtual auxiliary port

    • RADIUS and TACACS+

     

     

    I have bought one unit and when trying to configure ipv6 …. it is missing. I say OK, maybe on this IOS image.

    Going back to Cisco website, using Software Advisor I can not find any IOS for 850 series which contains IPv6.

    So, I have opened an issue with TAC. And guy says something “yeah, 850s don’t have IPv6”.

    CISCO give me my IPv6 on router which I bought!!!!!! Or give me a new one which does it!

    Cisco liars !!!