said by Mike Wolf:and yet somehow Netgear's own product page says that it supports IPv6. This isn't the first time that Netgear exaggerated IPv6 support on their products. Last year an independent company tested IPv6 support on Netgear routers only to find that when given a /56 address the router would burst into flames in a metaphorical sense and was unable to properly operate. What the issue was was that Netgear certified their routers with a /64 address and since everything worked fine in the lab, they assumed everything else would work.
An excert from the article:
"In our IPv6 trial we hand out a /56 to each router. When I discovered that the PC attached to the Netgear router didn't have an IPv6 address, a little poking around revealed that the router was attempting to perform SLAAC with the full /56, rather than select a /64 out of the delegated prefix. In compliance with IETF standards, the PC wasn't getting an IPv6 address. I can only speculate, but it appears that in its testing Netgear was only handing out a /64 to each router, which likely would have resulted in a successful test"
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I had seen that review, but it was from over a year ago, and have not found anything more current. So that issue may or may not still be present.
At that time Cisco/Linksys had no routers with IPv6 support, for example.