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Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Suan)
Sun Jul 5 11:17:33 2015

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 11:17:30 -0400
From: Nicholas Suan <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
To: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: johnl@iecc.com, jmoore@atcnetworks.net, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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That's only an issue with airport devices and PPPoE. I can confirm it
does native DHCPv6-PD otherwise.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:32 AM, William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wr=
ote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 06:13:52 +0000, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> said:
>
>     > In fact, I show just how to do this using a $99 Apple Airport
>     > Express in my three-hour online course =E2=80=9CBuild your own IPv6=
 Lab=E2=80=9D
>
> An anectode about this, maybe out of date, maybe not. I was helping my
> friend who likes Apple things connect to the local community
> network. He wanted to use an Airport as his home gateway rather than
> the router that we normally use. Turns out these things can *only* do
> IPv6 with tunnels and cannot do IPv6 on PPPoE. Go figure. So there is
> not exactly a clear path to native IPv6 for your lab this way.
>
> -w

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