[167379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Tue Dec 10 07:42:49 2013
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:41:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <228039.1386610489@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: "valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>, "North American
Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/9/13, 12:34 PM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:51:46 -0500, Cutler James R said:
>
>> According to Comcast's DOCSIS Devices page,
>> http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/?s=3D3Di&so=3D1&e=3D0&d3=3D1&tier=3D-1&s=
c=3D84
>> the Cisco DPC3008 is not supported for IPv6. You could always try
>> enabling IPv6 on a system directly connected to the Cisco and see what
>> happens. I'm not optimistic.
>
>That page also says the Zoom 5341 cable modem doesn't do IPv6, although
>the device in my living room says it does indeed do so but its upstream
>refuses to provision it.
While I won't speak to specific device makes/models, we at Comcast add a
device to the v6 list after we have tested and shown that it works. In my
experience, hearing "our device/router/software/whatever supports IPv6=B2
isn=B9t generally specific enough and often doesn=B9t mean much until it ha=
s
been tested. ;-)
Jason
