IPv6 TODO

New years gift to our loyal forum users. This is the list of features we have planned to complete within the next 6 months, for v5:

  • IPsec IPv6 support with IKE v2 IKE v3 (probably in v6 beta)
  • IP Pool support; for PPP and DHCP (to manage networks instead of addresses)
  • IPv6 Address auto-configuration from other routers
  • IPv6 DHCP stateless configuration & prefix assignment
  • Hotspot
  • Webproxy
  • DNS64
  • NAT64
  • SSTP IPv6
  • L2TP IPv6 (also probably only for v6 beta)

You probably mean stateful address allocation.

Any plans to support MPLS 6PE?

no, stateless

yes, MPLS 6PE is planned, but probably in v6 beta only.

IPV6 support is a top need right now.

- IPsec IPv6 support with IKE v2 IKE v3 (probably in v6 beta)
Will it include new things except just IPv6 support? Like ciphers, PFS Group 14-16 and authentication algorithms?
- Webproxy
Is it possible for you to add a remove button to remove all the “Mikrotik HttpProxy” headers while you guys are at it? :wink:

How? NAT64 → NAT44?

Hooray, that’s exciting. Excited about the other features, too.

Great news !


Thanks guys, looking forward to it.

I would like to suggest that when the dev team are concentrating on IPSEC that they implement “Virtual Tunnel Interfaces” and “Next-Hop Tunnel Binding” as well as IPv6

this would allow us to replace a large amount of aging Netscreen’s and Juniper SSG’s :wink: It is also one of the top features requested on the Wiki list

VTIs would be awesome, yes.

Cant really say you support IPv6 without IPSEC functional.. IIRC, the IPv6 RFC required IPSEC capability… :wink:

So realistically, we are looking at about 12-18 months before ROS really supports IPv6 completely.

Should also allow you to disable exposing the address of the device being proxied (X-Forwarded-For header).

12-18 months before ROS really supports IPv6 completely.

so and where did you get that number?

lol, did the O/P not know the Latvian’s work faster in the winter to keep warm :wink:

IPv6 featureset will be complete in a jiffy

If you arent doing IPv6 IPSEC until V6, and v5 has been testing for 9 months, with a few months to go until stable.

Just sayin…

we could make v5 full release in 2 months, and release v6 beta the day after that. just sayin

Beta != Release

?

Release means when something is available to the public. How stable or complete that release is, is another question. As you know, versions keep changing, and new features get added since 1996, so there is not one “final” or “complete” version out there.

That has to be the most narrow-minded comment I have ever seen. “RouterOS is never complete because we always add stuff to it”.

If that is how you want to justify it, fine. But the simple fact remains that (unless someone kicks dev into gear) a complete IPv6 feature-set is 12-18 months away. Masquerading behind “We are always adding new features” wont change that.

I didn’t say anything like that. I referred to the popular wish for “v5 final release”. Use of word “final” is misleading, as you know v4.0 already superseded by 16 newer versions.

Still no sign of IPv6 mangle mark routing ??? so still can’t do nth load balancing

On that topic is there any chance we could have a very simple config like ECMP but which does per packet and not per session ???

It would just round robin the packets across each interface added to the default route.

Nick.