[Wiltshire] Virgin Media IPv6?

David Fletcher dave at thefletchers.net
Mon Jan 20 16:40:11 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 11:42 +0000, Simon Iremonger wrote:

I was thinking it would be too good to be true....

> 
> In any case you'd need router/its' software to recieve the
> DHCPv6-prefix-delegation, and then do the needed "router-advertisement"
> (radvd) on the LAN-side (sort of like DHCPv4, but radvd is 'stateless'.).
> 
> You could, however, [assuming no nonsense with mac-addresses etc.],
> however, tempororially test with a computer directly attached to
> cablemodem without router... and see if that auto-picks-up IPv6-address.
> It may-or-may-not need "wide-dhcpv6-client" or similar...  Not familiar
> with Cable setups, only ADSL or College-Ethernet-lan  IPv6 for me...

I've not tried that yet, but, having looked at forum postings about
this, I think you probably need to get the normal cable modem replaced
with something they call a superhub.

So, as I expected, it looks like it's just BS.





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