Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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 () 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 () 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.]
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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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> -- 
> Best Regards
> Curtis Maurand
> Principal Xyonet Web Hosting
> mailto:cmaurand () xyonet com
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