Topic 'Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout' in forum 'Comcast HSI' - dslreports.com

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Thu, 31 May 2012 02:50:38 EDT

Mike Wolf posted :

Stuff is going to break either way on June 6th. You have tons of users with broken v6 stacks (running 6to4 behind NAT) etc.

I'll have the fire extinguishers ready when it all goes up in flames.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:16:23 EDT

whfsdude posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

yeah you make good points, lol. people calling in freaking out asking "what the hell is this?!" and stuff.

Stuff is going to break either way on June 6th. You have tons of users with broken v6 stacks (running 6to4 behind NAT) etc.

I think a lot of users won't even notice they have broken networks due to happy eyeballs.

»tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:11:52 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : yeah you make good points, lol. people calling in freaking out asking "what the hell is this?!" and stuff.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Wed, 30 May 2012 01:17:26 EDT

NetFixer posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

Well I certainly hope that's not the case and EVERYONE gets to experience the miracle IPv6 is before that date :D

That would be nice, if it were possible. However, I suspect that Comcast will be turning up a handful of CMTS boxes at a time for at least the rest of this year.

Seriously, can you imagine the support call center traffic that would occur if Comcast suddenly just turned on IPv6 on their entire network (even if there were no Comcast network problems)?
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:40:37 EDT

RR Conductor posted : Evidently I'm getting an IPv6 address, but my IPv6 isn't fully enabled-

Your IPv4 address on the public Internet appears to be 67.180.42.98

Your IPv6 address on the public Internet appears to be 2001:0:4137:9e76:1056:24f9:bc4b:d59d
Your IPv6 service appears to be: Teredo

The World IPv6 Launch day is June 6th, 2012. Good news! Your current browser, on this computer and at this location, are expected to keep working after the Launch. [more info]

You appear to be able to browse the IPv4 Internet only. You will not be able to reach IPv6-only sites.

Your IPv6 connection appears to be using Teredo, a type of IPv4/IPv6 gateway; currently it connects only to direct IP's. Your browser will not be able to go to IPv6 sites by name. This means the current configuration is not useful for browsing IPv6 web sites. [more info]

Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have IPv6 Internet access.
Your readiness scores
10/10 for your IPv4 stability and readiness, when publishers offer both IPv4 and IPv6
0/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 only

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:37:45 EDT

mike5026 posted : Yeah that is strange my modem says that as well. But I had done the IPv6 test and it does say I have IPv6. Wonder if anyone else has that?

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:24:51 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : Well I certainly hope that's not the case and EVERYONE gets to experience the miracle IPv6 is before that date :D

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:19:33 EDT

NetFixer posted :

said by RR Conductor:

I set my RT-N66U router to IPv6 native w/DHCP, but still nothing up here in Northwestern California.

Well, it isn't the magic June 6 date yet, so perhaps you might get it by then. OTOH, since participation in this June 6 turn on program only requires 1% of an ISP's customers actually receive IPv6 service by that date, it is entirely possible that the customers who are already getting IPv6 service will enable Comcast to meet that minimum requirement.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:18:42 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : Noticed I have a native IPv6 address on Friday. Strangely the modem still says it's in IPv4 mode.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 22:50:53 EDT

RR Conductor posted : I set my RT-N66U router to IPv6 native w/DHCP, but still nothing up here in Northwestern California.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 22:40:27 EDT

mike5026 posted : Looks like IPv6 is working for me now.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Tue, 29 May 2012 21:32:41 EDT

brad posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

Really?, thats unusual because for example I use 6RD on Comcast with a hurricane electric tunnel and it works. Comcast turned off their own 6RD relays back in June.

What HE offers are called 6in4 tunnels.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:52:17 EDT

telcodad posted : As Mike Wolf reported in: »Comcast announces IPv6 deployment for gateways beginning

From: Comcast's IPv6 Information Center (»www.comcast6.net/ ):

New Firmware for NetGear CMD31T Device Released
Monday, May 14, 2012

NetGear and Comcast have completed emergency testing, certification, and field soak with their new firmware that resolved the previous IPv6 defect. This new firmware should now be running on all CMD31T devices operating in our network. In addition, NetGear has updated their existing unsold devices, some of which are now available at Walmart stores around the country. We appreciate NetGear's close cooperation to bring this to closure.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:21:19 EDT

whfsdude posted : I guess one could give a IPv4MaskLen of 32, negating any address encoding. That would make 6rd sort of work. Kind of weird vendor implementation though.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:51:37 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : 10/10 IPv4
10/10 IPv6
:)

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:47:25 EDT

RR Conductor posted :

said by scajjr:

Man I was born in 1954 so now I feel ancient ;).

RR -I was going to comment after you posted that first pic that you needed to update your firmware from .90 to .108 (there were some ipv6 issues in .90 & .96) but saw in the second pic that you had done that.

I replaced a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH with the RT-N66U mainly for the IPv6 compatibility but the 66U also has stronger coverage in our 2 story house (not that the Buffalo was bad but the 66U is even stronger).

Went to HE and got an account. Will try setting up IPv6 over the weekend. Just wondering- I have 6 computers on our home network (2 wired, 4 wireless). Does the ipv6 address on each have to be set manually or just have them all running when setting up the tunnel on HE?

Sam

Well, my parents were both born in 1934, and are celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversary this October, so they beat us all in that department. :D lol Love ya mom and dad! My brother came along in 1954 too, then my two sisters in 1955 and 1962 and yours truly in 1971.

Yeah, the new firmware did something, they must have solved whatever was wrong with IPv6 in the previous firmware.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:22:42 EDT

whfsdude posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

Really?, thats unusual because for example I use 6RD on Comcast with a hurricane electric tunnel and it works. Comcast turned off their own 6RD relays back in June.

Not sure how it's working. Maybe you'll want to run »test-ipv6.com/ again.

6RD encodes your public IPv4 address into a /32 subnet on IPv6. That won't work with static 6in4 tunnels as address blocks are already pre-defined for you.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:18:39 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : Really?, thats unusual because for example I use 6RD on Comcast with a hurricane electric tunnel and it works. Comcast turned off their own 6RD relays back in June.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:15:45 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : sorry, it wasn't intentional though.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:41:25 EDT

whfsdude posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

try tunnel 6RD. I noticed that its an option on your router.

6RD will not work unless your ISP has 6RD relays.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:36:20 EDT

dabombnl posted : I'm for helping each other out but you two totally just hijacked this thread.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:22:21 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : In my experience when I setup my router, it dolled out an IPv6 address itself via DHCP

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:17:27 EDT

scajjr posted : Man I was born in 1954 so now I feel ancient ;).

RR -I was going to comment after you posted that first pic that you needed to update your firmware from .90 to .108 (there were some ipv6 issues in .90 & .96) but saw in the second pic that you had done that.

I replaced a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH with the RT-N66U mainly for the IPv6 compatibility but the 66U also has stronger coverage in our 2 story house (not that the Buffalo was bad but the 66U is even stronger).

Went to HE and got an account. Will try setting up IPv6 over the weekend. Just wondering- I have 6 computers on our home network (2 wired, 4 wireless). Does the ipv6 address on each have to be set manually or just have them all running when setting up the tunnel on HE?

Sam

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:00:37 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : You’re welcome lol. Man 1990 huh? Gee I was just born in 1988. Who knows when IPv7 is gonna roll out. I think the real reason for the slow IPv6 rollout is because of the whole address thing is confusing the engineer’s lol. I was hoping when I finished my education that I wouldn’t have to learn a boat load more stuff, I guess I was crazy wrong lol

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:51:23 EDT

RR Conductor posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

You're quite welcome. IPv6 is still difficult for me to grasp as well. I wouldn't be able to enter an IPv6 address from scratch if my life depended on it, IPv4 is so much easier. Anyway hopefully native IPv6 will make our lives easier (probably not lol) Congrats on getting everything working.

Oh man, it does make the IP thing more complicated huh?! LOL It may not make our lives easier, but it will keep us learning and studying, and I guess that's a good thing, most of the time anyway. :D haha To think, when I graduated High School in 1990 there were probably just a few million IP addresses, or less, now we're getting into the gazillions lol Thanks again bro, you rock!

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:50:24 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : I agree, like a help thread for peopel to pop in to get their equipment setup. I did a router setup already in the IPv6 legacy devices thread I created lol.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:49:11 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : You're quite welcome. IPv6 is still difficult for me to grasp as well. I wouldn't be able to enter an IPv6 address from scratch if my life depended on it, IPv4 is so much easier. Anyway hopefully native IPv6 will make our lives easier (probably not lol) Congrats on getting everything working.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:47:40 EDT

RR Conductor posted : We should probably make this a sticky, or at least save the info for others getting this router.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:43:16 EDT

RR Conductor posted : I GOT IT, yeee hawww!!

Your IPv4 address on the public Internet appears to be 67.180.42.98

Your IPv6 address on the public Internet appears to be 2001:470:1f05:375:f9b7:5cc0:7f42:1b14

The World IPv6 Launch day is June 6th, 2012. Good news! Your current browser, on this computer and at this location, are expected to keep working after the Launch. [more info]

Congratulations! You appear to have both IPv4 and IPv6 Internet working. If a publisher publishes to IPv6, your browser will connect using IPv6. Your browser prefers IPv6 over IPv4 when given the choice (this is the expected outcome).

Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have IPv6 Internet access.
Your readiness scores
10/10 for your IPv4 stability and readiness, when publishers offer both IPv4 and IPv6
10/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 only

Thank you for your help on this, and patience, I'm pretty tech savvy but IPv6 and advanced networking is still a learning field for me. :D

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:15:20 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : do you have skype? maybe we could work on it over on that.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:11:26 EDT

RR Conductor posted : Nope, I can't get it to work. Still no IPv6.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:59:00 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : alright

IPv6 prefix would be Server IPv6 Address:2001:470:1f04:375::1
prefix length is 64
IPv4 remote router would be Server IPv4 Address:72.52.104.74

see if that works.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:46:00 EDT

RR Conductor posted : Pv6 Tunnel Endpoints
Server IPv4 Address:72.52.104.74
Server IPv6 Address:2001:470:1f04:375::1/64
Client IPv4 Address:67.180.42.98
Client IPv6 Address:2001:470:1f04:375::2/64
Available DNS Resolvers
Anycasted IPv6 Caching Nameserver:2001:470:20::2
Anycasted IPv4 Caching Nameserver:74.82.42.42
Routed IPv6 Prefixes
Routed /64:2001:470:1f05:375::/64
Routed /48:Assign /48
rDNS DelegationsEdit
rDNS Delegated NS1:ns1.he.net
rDNS Delegated NS2:ns2.he.net
rDNS Delegated NS3:ns3.he.net
rDNS Delegated NS4:ns4.he.net
rDNS Delegated NS5:ns5.he.net

That's my tunnel info.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:40:59 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : mask length is 32

did you get these numbers from your HE account?

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:28:28 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : it happens to all of us sometimes lol so is it all working now?

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:28:04 EDT

RR Conductor posted : Now what to put where?

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:23:58 EDT

RR Conductor posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

wierd because the service mockup shows theres options.
maybe try disabling the DHCP option?

That was it, D'OH, I feel dumb!

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:03:23 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : wierd because the service mockup shows theres options.
maybe try disabling the DHCP option?

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:52:33 EDT

RR Conductor posted : 6rd doesn't have all those settings on mine, just to enable or disable the DHCP Option, a place for tunnel mtu and tunnel ttl, and ipv6 dns servers.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:40:07 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : what i ment was reconfigure the router to use 6RD and the 6RD info supplied by HE. It's what I'm currently using without a problem. »www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/inde···c=1850.0

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:37:07 EDT

RR Conductor posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

try tunnel 6RD. I noticed that its an option on your router.

That didn't work either.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:35:33 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : try tunnel 6RD. I noticed that its an option on your router.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:29:55 EDT

RR Conductor posted : IPv4 shows as enabled, IPv6 is showing as not enabled. Thanks for the help by the way, I appreciate it!

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:28:45 EDT

RR Conductor posted : Here's what the config page looks like for 6to4.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:28:36 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : yes thats not getting an IP address though just the link local the router is giving out. Go to network connection status and tell me if you see ipv4 connectivity and ipv6 connectivity and its status then check the details button.

Re: [IPv6] Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:21:45 EDT

RR Conductor posted :

said by Mike Wolf:

looks like its an issue with the router not being configured because I get the same results when the 6rd tunnel has the wrong numbers.

what operating system are you using because with a Vista machine I tested it says the browser perfers IPv4 over IPv6 whereas my 7 machines which run the same IE9 browser says the browser perfers IPv6 over IPv4.

Do your computers have an IPv6 address?

I'm running Windows 7 SP 1 on this computer. According to ipconfig, this pc has a IPv6 address-

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Blade Runner>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4589:eeb8:8948:f6b2%13
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.11
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1