another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

Tue Jul 21 15:31:56 UTC 2015

Furst rule of dealing with $CABLECO — If you don’t like the answer you get on this phone call, redial. The next person will probably give you a different answer. Certainly you can almost always get the answer you are looking for (even if it’s wrong) within 5 calls if you are that patient.

Owen

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 05:13 , Curtis Maurand <cmaurand at xyonet.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> ("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.)
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>> 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)
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>> [For the record, TWC-BC hands out a /56 no matter what you ask for.]
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> 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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> Curtis Maurand
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