another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

Tue Jul 21 12:13:48 UTC 2015

On 7/20/2015 5:59 PM, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:45:43 -0400, Seth Mos <seth.mos at dds.nl> wrote:
>> For now, all the customers with the Ubee in bridge mode are SOL. It's 
>> not clear what the reason is, but Ubee in bridge mode with IPv6 is 
>> listed on the road map. If that's intentional policy or that the 
>> firmware isn't ready yet is not clear at this point.
>
> Even in bridge mode, it's router is still active (and consuming an 
> address -- which TWC eventually "fixed" by upping the number of 
> allowed devices by one.) In TWC-BC land, the customer has no access to 
> the CPE, so we cannot see anything beyond the login screen.
>
> ("user" -- non-priv account -- can be accessed on some of them, which 
> is how I know the router is still active, but I cannot do anything 
> about it.)
>
> The Arris DG1670A is passing IPv6 through properly. (I'm told it is 
> "known broken", but it's the *one* out of three that works.) The Arris 
> CM820A -- used for their hotspot -- doesn't appear to work correctly; 
> my (win7) laptop got a DHCP ::/128 but then couldn't get anywhere. 
> (IPv4 worked fine)
>
> [For the record, TWC-BC hands out a /56 no matter what you ask for.]

At least in Maine where I am, TWC does allow you to bring your own modem 
as long as it's DOCSIS 3 compliant and there's lots of those from 
motorola, netgear and others.  You're not stuck with the Ubee.

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