It turns out that if your firewall is a full Linux box, adding IPv6 is relatively easy. I suspect that the main barrier to consumer adoption is the prevalence of crappy home routers.

Let’s quote a Debian Developer, who I will not name:

“Oh, and by the way, systemd bloody works on my system. I can’t even remember when I switched to it. It Just Worked.”

The problem with systemd is that he’s got one system, not five hundred, and he somehow thinks that makes it a representative sample.

I don’t have any such confidence.

I decided that my next firewall would not be a home wifi router thing, even running OpenWRT – I wanted something that I knew I could upgrade and configure to handle whatever comes down the pipe next.

And I wanted it to be fast.

And I wanted it to be cheap.

Let’s say you install a new Debian system using the Jessie release, which will become the next stable release in a few months. And let’s say that you would prefer not to be enmeshed in systemd.

Too bad.

However, you can remove it.