Re: [tlug] IPv6 on au hikari

[David Van Cleef <d-vancleef@example.com>]

On 64/07/23 4:59, Edward Middleton wrote:
> On 09/04/2011 04:58 PM, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > 	We've just moved into a new apartment and signed up for VDSL via au. Both the
> > au service and the router itself (an Aterm BL172HV home gateway) seem to have
> > good provision for IPv6, and the au web site says that you don't need to do
> > anything special to get routed IPv6, but I'm not seeing anything: on the
> > information page, there's a linklocal prefix (obviously) but no global prefix
> > on the LAN side and no next hop or IPv6 DNS servers on the WAN side.
> > 	Can I get IPv6 on the au hikari VDSL service and do I have to set up anything
> > special to get it?
>
> I haven't looked at this recently but I believe they only allocate you a
> /128 so its not really useful for anything accept receiving iptv.

You get a global-unicast /64, but mansion service is dead-last on the 
list to get the upgrade (next January).

My HGW and STB have both gotten v6-capable firmware updates pushed to 
them over the last couple months though.