I'm not sure what you're talking about tbh. You can use SLACC or DHCP to get an IP address on the WAN side, but you must do prefix delegation to push IP's to the LAN side. It's different, but it's not more difficult.
What I'm observing is routers that don't have IPv6 at all, or haven't bothered to do the prefix delegation. That's not a flaw in the protocol, they just haven't implemented it. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 11:15 AM To: Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com>; AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IPv6 in home routers Because it's not straight forward to deploy. On 12/15/21 11:11 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > I don't think we're talking about flaws in the protocol. I think > we're talking about it being a secondary concern for manufacturers so > they're not putting enough attention into it. > > > On 12/15/2021 11:06 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >> Correct. We still don't know how to properly hand out IPv6 to end >> users, and routers have issues doing it. >> >> The protocol stack is a flawed implementation. >> >> On 12/13/21 4:51 PM, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I was doing some testing on our dual stack FTTX network. >>> >>> I grabbed a CnPilot R201P off the shelf. IPv6 was disabled by >>> default. You had to enable it in 3 different places and even after >>> following the guides on Cambium’s site the prefix delegation seems >>> to not really work. >>> >>> I grabbed an AirCube…..no IPv6 support at all. It’s supported in >>> the underlying OS, but not in the GUI. Ubiquiti support says it’s >>> coming, but they’ve been saying that for 2 years +. >>> >>> I grabbed a Mikrotik…..works perfectly fine, but setup is beyond >>> what any consumer is going to do. If I’m quibbling, it doesn’t >>> support stateful dhcp assignments from a delegated prefix. That’s >>> not too big of a deal. >>> >>> Out of 3 routers I have close at hand, 1 is a faulty implementation, >>> 1 is not implemented at all, and one is too hard for normal people. >>> >>> So when people run out to the store and get a Netgear, Asus, or >>> whatever router off the shelf is it hit-or-miss with those too? I >>> guess I naively assumed that 25 years after IPv6 was created that >>> we’d have working implementations by now. >>> >>> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
