another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

Fri Jul 17 14:49:20 UTC 2015

On 7/17/15, 6:25 AM, "Christopher Morrow" <christopher.morrow at gmail.com on
behalf of morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>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?)

Yes.

I should have said that there are some modems that don’t support IPv6, and
a few that should-but-don’t-properly-yet. Ricky and I have corresponded
privately.

Lee

>
>> (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
>