turning on comcast v6

jimb at jsbc.cc jimb at jsbc.cc
Wed Dec 11 22:44:32 UTC 2013


Hear hear.

Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
>
>In message <A026246E-F884-47F0-9225-AFAA87CD35B1 at steffann.nl>, Sander
>Steffann 
>writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Op 11 dec. 2013, om 20:46 heeft Kinkaid, Kyle <kkinkaid at usgs.gov> het
>> volgende geschreven:
>> > I'm curious, do you know of a consumer-grade router which supports
>> > DHCPv6-PD?
>>
>> I have tested a whole bunch of them more than a year ago. I can
>remember
>> seeing IPv6 DHCPv6-PD client support on gear from AVM Fritz!box,
>D-Link,
>> Draytek, Zyxel, Linksys, Asus, Thompson/Technicolor and I must be
>> forgetting a few as well. Most of them weren't very advanced, but
>they
>> worked to get IPv6 connectivity in the house. What I am missing these
>> days is DHCPv6-PD server support to re-delegate parts of the prefix
>it
>> got from the ISP downstream to other home routers. As far as I know
>AVM
>> Fritz!box is the only one that does that today.
>
>And the need for it was obvious when all the other boxes were being
>developed.  Daisy chaining routers has been part of home setups for
>many, many years if only to get configuration control because the
>ISP router is not configurable enough.  There was no reason to think
>that this would change with IPv6.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Sander
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