[167172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Dec 2 22:48:00 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.w7hyvpu9tfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 19:46:04 -0800
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 2, 2013, at 19:34 , Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:03:59 -0500, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> =
wrote:
>>> Not counting MAC users, because they cannot do DHCPv6 without 3rd =
party software.
>>=20
>> My Macs seem to do DHCPv6 just fine here without third party =
software, so I'm not sure what you are talking about.
>=20
> I've heard many reports of apple not supporting DHCPv6 up to 10.7. =
After much digging, I have found a single report of it working in 10.8. =
So, if you're up-to-date, you wouldn't notice it either. :-)
It worked in some later versions of 10.7, all versions of 10.8 and still =
works in 10.9.
Given that 10.7 is fairly ancient at this point, I really don't think =
you have to be all that up to date to have it work.
Given that 10.9 is a 100% free upgrade for anyone with a Mac and that =
nobody has reported any major problems with it that I know of, I would =
think that the number of people holding back from upgrading, especially =
if the need IPv6, would be relatively low.
>=20
>>> Nobody really cared with they limited what RFC1918 space you could =
use. (not sure they're still doing that.)
>>=20
>> Not sure what you mean here since RFC-1918 is IPv4 only.
>=20
> Just providing an example of AT&T Uverse lunacy that hasn't resulted =
in millions of customers leaving. If you want an IPv6 example, their =
recent 2wire firmware update that broke proto-41 tunnels has met with an =
equally fervent "gee-whiz, att" response.
Actually I know several people that cancelled their UVerse subscriptions =
when ATT broke protocol 41. There are also some FCC complaints that have =
been lodged if what people are telling me is true.
Owen
