[167560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Dec 18 23:57:39 2013
From: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:57:10 +0000
To: Bill Weiss <houdini+nanog@clanspum.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ok, so... with a little messing around with the raspberry-pi + tp-link +
wide-dhcpv6 client.. success!
more at: http://goo.gl/jnrY7s
On Fri Dec 13 2013 at 3:57:49 PM, Bill Weiss <houdini+nanog@clanspum.net>
wrote:
> 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=92t. You can get IPv6 working with off-the-shelf equipment i=
f
> 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. Th=
e
> > 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
>
>
