[166968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Sat Nov 23 01:25:45 2013
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
In-Reply-To: <5290498A.6040405@trelane.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:25:14 -0800
To: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yay! Thank you very much.=20
You should write up something to their support forums!
Mehmet
> On Nov 22, 2013, at 22:22, Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net> wrote:
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> Special thanks to Alexander from AT&T's "Tier-2" dept, though my suspicion=
is that that is not where he works, as he seems exceptionally clueful.
> Additional thanks to Owen DeLong who finally got me off my ass to actually=
do this, I'll see you in the sky!
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> Ok, is this core routing? not really, but it's nice to see a major clue in=
jection over at AT&T Uverse. I'm using this to document the MASSIVE bureauc=
ratic PITA which is getting native IPv6 on uverse. You'll start from the de=
fault service on a 2wire "modem" (for values of modem that equate to profani=
ty). If you have the Motorola NVG589, count yourself lucky and skip most of=
these steps.
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> Abandon all hope ye who enter here....
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> Step 1: contact AT&T Uverse support and complain that you need IPv6 (becau=
se we all need it, I in fact do for work).
> Step 2: general confusion as the level 1 droid doesn't know what IPv6 is, p=
olitely request to be transferred to tier 2
> step 3: you will be told that tier 2 is a paid service, invoke the almight=
y FCC and ask to speak with a supervisor, expect a long hold here.
> step 4: you arrive at tier 2, mention that IPv6 won't work on your 2wire a=
nd that AT&T has broken your protocol 41 tunnel with <insert tunnel broker h=
ere, usually HE>
> step 5: you'll need to get your 2wire replaced with a Motorola NVG589. Ag=
ain you will be threatened with a cost to upgrade, mine was waived due to th=
e work requirement. I'd guess some additional complaining and escalation wi=
ll get this fee waived. My recollection was it was $100. The new modem is g=
ood news for quite a few reasons, the 2wire sucks, the Motorola sucks signif=
icantly less, and has a built in battery backup, but mine lacked the battery=
.
> step 6: you'll receive the motorola by mail, or have a tech install it, th=
ey actually had a tech in my area and I had an AT&T tech at my door in less t=
han 20 minutes from when I got off the phone with tier-2 (I about died from t=
he shock).
> step 7: configure the motorola (192.168.1.254) for passthrough, DHCPS-dyna=
mic, disable the firewall, the "advanced" firewall, hpna, wireless, etc.
> Step 8: reboot to push the public IP to your real router.
> step 9: head over to the Motorola's home network tab, and in the status wi=
ndow you'll see:
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> IPv6
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> Status Available
> Global IPv6 Address 2602:306:cddd:xxxx::1/64
> Link-local IPv6 Address fe80::923e:abff:xxxx:7e40
> Router Advertisement Prefix 2602:306:cddd:xxxx::/64
> IPV6 Delegated LAN Prefix 2602:306:cddd:xxxx::
> 2602:306:cddd:xxxx::
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> In reality additional poking leads me to believe AT&T gives you a rather g=
enerous /60, but how to use it?
> step 10: set up dhcpv6, example for mikrotik follows (but should be easily=
convertible to nearly any router):
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> /ipv6> export
> # dec/31/2001 20:26:03 by RouterOS 6.6
> # software id =3D 5F2Y-X73L
> #
> /ipv6 address
> add address=3D2602:306:cddd:xxxx::1 from-pool=3DAT&T interface=3Dbridge1
> /ipv6 dhcp-client
> add add-default-route=3Dyes interface=3Dether10 pool-name=3DAT&T
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> I hope that this is of help to someone.
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> Andrew
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