another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

Fri Jul 17 10:25:26 UTC 2015

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:20:11 -0400, Lee Howard <Lee at asgard.org> wrote:
>>
>> Business Class DOCSIS customers get a prefix automatically (unless you
>> provide your own gateway and DHCPv6 isn¹t enabled).
>

doesn't the last paranthetical here

>
> I looked last night at the office in Cary, NC. NO RAs are seen on the link
> coming from the Ubee (bridged) providing our dynamic/DOCSIS connection.
> Without an RA, nothing will attempt IPv6.
>

mean that your UBee has to do dhcpv6? (or the downstream thingy from
the UBee has to do dhcpv6?)

> (I've not checked the one in Raleigh that's also a hotspot)
>
> Residential? sure, there's lot of v6 there -- has been for over a year. But
> as I'm an Earthlink customer, and those morons cannot be bothered to give
> TWC one of their *5* UNUSED /32's, all I get is:
>         (IA_PD IAID:327681 T1:0 T2:0 (status code no prefixes))
>
> --Ricky