[167501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Weiss)
Fri Dec 13 15:56:41 2013
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:56:24 -0600
From: Bill Weiss <houdini+nanog@clanspum.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAKyZmWvV2TT2M=jFm7rsMS6xYFVeMjiLWxKEVRwmP=-yxuEMyg@mail.gmail.com>
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Kinkaid, Kyle(kkinkaid@usgs.gov)@Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:46:56AM -0800:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>
> > It doesn’t. You can get IPv6 working with off-the-shelf equipment if you
> > choose to.
> >
> > Randy chose to use that particular hardware and software combination.
>
>
> I'm curious, do you know of a consumer-grade router which supports
> DHCPv6-PD? I have been making plans to put OpenWRT on my home router to get
> IPv6 and have found v6 support quite lacking. Most of the routers seem to
> like to focus on various transition technologies like 6to4 tunnels. I
> would love to go to NewEgg and get a home router for $50 (or even $100)
> that is ready to go.
>
> What's more surprising is even Cisco and Juniper have been lagging. The
> SRX only got DHCPv6-PD support in the last 6 months or so and I don't think
> the ASA has it yet. However, ISR routers like the 88x and 86x support it.
So what it's worth, I'm on Comcast Business, using an ASUS RT-N66U router
and a Motorola SB6141 modem. IPv6 Just Works on my network. I don't
remember having to do anything strange to the router to make it work, and
I'm certainly still running the default firmware.
--
Bill Weiss
