On 09/18/2016 05:34 PM, James Knott wrote:
On 09/18/2016 08:08 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I've got the wan interface on the router to obtain a v6 address by enabling dhcpv6. It gets a 2600:xxxx:xxxx:x:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 address. Billions and Billions of v6 addresses and they're giving me only one? How many do you need for the WAN interface? ;-)
Actually, a /128 is just an interface address.
The only way I get even the /128 addy is by running dhcpv6. Maybe the problem is that the router doesn't support the "PD" thingie?
But I can't get any v6 action on the lan interfaces. Could this be because I've got only one addy on the wan side? Do I need to set up nat-v6? :-) I don't know how Cox hands out IPv6 prefixes, but a common method is DHCPv6-PD. You have to see if that router supports it or whatever Cox is using.
It may be the router then. Can the PD thing be done manually? The router's config screen allows setting the "IPv6 Address/Prefix length" when enabling Router Advertisement. How can you learn the address without dhcpv6-pd compatibility? Is it in the /128 address?
And no, there's no reason to use NAT. NAT is a hack to get around the IPv4 address shortage. It also breaks some things. You should have at least a /64 prefix. Some ISPs are providing a /56 or /48, which have 256 or 65536 /64s. Each /64 has 18.4 billion, billion addresses.
You missed my smiley!
Cox has a support forum. There's likely someone there in a better position to help. Here are a couple of Cox links:
http://forums.cox.com/default.aspx http://www.cox.com/residential/support/tv/article.cox?articleId=0bced860-966...
Yes, I saw those before posting, but I need do dig deeper. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org