Re: turning on comcast v6

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

It doesn’t. You can get IPv6 working with off-the-shelf equipment if you choose to.

Randy chose to use that particular hardware and software combination.

Owen

On Dec 11, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Eric Oosting <eric.oosting () gmail com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
>
> > Randy Bush wrote:
> > > http://comcast6.net/ tells me that the local cmts is v6 enabled.  my
> > > modem, a cisco dpc3008, is in the supported products list.  so how do
> > > i turn the sucker on?
> > >
> > > randy
> >
> > after a lot of messing about with the massive help of Chris Adams and
> > John Brzozowski, problem solved.  see http://rtechblog.psg.com/
>
>
> It brings a tear to my eye that it takes:
>
> 0) A long standing and well informed internet technologist;
> 1) specific, and potentially high end, CPE for the res;
> 2) specific and custom firmware, unsupported by CPE manufacturer ... or
> anyone;
> 3) hand installing several additional packages;
> 4) hand editing config files;
> 5) sysctl kernel flags;
> 6) several shout outs to friends and coworkers for assistance (resources
> many don't have access to);
> 7) oh, and probably hours and hours twiddling with it.
>
> just to get IPv6 to work correctly.
>
> Yea, that's TOTALLY reasonable.
>
> -e
>
>
> > randy