[167432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Dec 11 14:25:09 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd7N8PHgmeTKRE=exAWLHfWrcAi7=0ikO6fKBpRQBLFg9mOaA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:18:00 -0800
To: Eric Oosting <eric.oosting@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It doesn=92t. You can get IPv6 working with off-the-shelf equipment if =
you choose to.
Randy chose to use that particular hardware and software combination.
Owen
On Dec 11, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Eric Oosting <eric.oosting@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
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>> Randy Bush wrote:
>>> http://comcast6.net/ tells me that the local cmts is v6 enabled. my
>>> modem, a cisco dpc3008, is in the supported products list. so how =
do
>>> i turn the sucker on?
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>>> randy
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>> after a lot of messing about with the massive help of Chris Adams and
>> John Brzozowski, problem solved. see http://rtechblog.psg.com/
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> It brings a tear to my eye that it takes:
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> 0) A long standing and well informed internet technologist;
> 1) specific, and potentially high end, CPE for the res;
> 2) specific and custom firmware, unsupported by CPE manufacturer ... =
or
> anyone;
> 3) hand installing several additional packages;
> 4) hand editing config files;
> 5) sysctl kernel flags;
> 6) several shout outs to friends and coworkers for assistance =
(resources
> many don't have access to);
> 7) oh, and probably hours and hours twiddling with it.
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> just to get IPv6 to work correctly.
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> Yea, that's TOTALLY reasonable.
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> -e
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>> randy
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