IPv6 on Eir eFibre FTTC / FTTH

ronan675 · 25-04-2016 03:44PM #1

I was wondering if anybody is doing IPv6 on an Eircom eFibre FTTC or FTTH connection? I have tried to get it working on an F1000 modem but I don't appear to be getting assigned an IPv6 prefix. I have tried various combinations of settings on the modem directly and with an enterprise firewall in a bridged configuration.

I believe this should work but I am wondering if it's a software bug or firmware limitation on the F1000. My F1000 has been "Debranded" and has the latest Zyxel firmware version V1.00(AAKL.13). I also tried it with the stock Eircom Firmware without success. Eircom made a low profile announcement about supporting Dual Stack late last year. The forum doesn't seem to be allowing me to post a link to the article in question.

I am wondering if it's just that the F1000 is unsupported for Dual Stack at this time. I would appreciate it if someone with an F2000 could try this and let me know the results.

bugfreebob · 26-04-2016 04:21AM

ronan675 wrote: »

I was wondering if anybody is doing IPv6 on an Eircom eFibre FTTC or FTTH connection? I have tried to get it working on an F1000 modem but I don't appear to be getting assigned an IPv6 prefix. I have tried various combinations of settings on the modem directly and with an enterprise firewall in a bridged configuration.

I believe this should work but I am wondering if it's a software bug or firmware limitation on the F1000. My F1000 has been "Debranded" and has the latest Zyxel firmware version V1.00(AAKL.13). I also tried it with the stock Eircom Firmware without success. Eircom made a low profile announcement about supporting Dual Stack late last year. The forum doesn't seem to be allowing me to post a link to the article in question.

I am wondering if it's just that the F1000 is unsupported for Dual Stack at this time. I would appreciate it if someone with an F2000 could try this and let me know the results.

I get IP V6 on the F2000 on Eir FTTC. It works dual-mode and sites such as Google use the IP V6 addressing while some other sites still drop back to V4.

ronan675 · 26-04-2016 01:14PM

bugfreebob wrote: »

I get IP V6 on the F2000 on Eir FTTC. It works dual-mode and sites such as Google use the IP V6 addressing while some other sites still drop back to V4.

Thanks for the info. I guess I will try get my hands on an F2000 and try again.

ED E · 26-04-2016 01:30PM

When you debranded how did you setup your WAN connection?

Packet · 26-04-2016 03:27PM

The F2000 modem is definitely the one to get for doing dual-stack IPv4 + IPv6. It also supports bridging of IPv6 Ethertype 0x86DD frames which allows third party home routers to be connected through it. e.g. OpenWRT, Asustek, Draytek, Avm etc.

The current eir F1000 firmware's IPv6 support is too buggy to use.

There are software updates in the pipeline for both the F2000 and F1000 that should also include some IPv6 features.

The F2000 update will turn on dual-stack by default. The F1000 update should fix the current IPv6 bugs and turn it on by default.

ronan675 · 26-04-2016 04:10PM

ED E wrote: »

When you debranded how did you setup your WAN connection?

I was using PPPOE because we have a block of static IP's which only get assigned over PPPOE. However I also tried IPOE but it didn't change the behaviour of IPv6. The rest of the settings were Eircom defaults e.g VLAN10 etc. The modem was still not showing any IPv6 assignments on the WAN.

After what Packet said above it sounds like the F2000 is the way to go. I would like to be able to pass IPv6 to another router with the Eircom modem in bridge mode.

ED E · 26-04-2016 04:35PM

F1000 does support it but initially was buggy (it interacted VERY poorly with OSX).

I've never bothered to look but I wouldnt be surprised if the RAS pools are only configured for v4. With IPoE it should in theory lease v6 too.

Packet · 26-04-2016 04:38PM

ronan675 wrote: »

I was using PPPOE

If you're using PPPoE then the F1000 can bridge PPPoE frames (PPPoE passthrough) from a third party router like OpenWRT with good IPv6 support. One other tip, only set the router doing IPv6 to request a delegated prefix not a IA_NA address. In the F2000 the request for IA_NA is off and hidden from the webgui.

The F2000 can do dual-stack over PPPoE if that's how your connection is set-up to get a static IPv4 assignment.

27-04-2016 08:25PM

I'm getting dual stack IPv6 on my F2000.

Never tried PPPoE on it.

Packet · 29-04-2016 08:51AM

Karsini wrote: »

I'm getting dual stack IPv6 on my F2000. Never tried PPPoE on it.

IPoE is the default because eir Vision uses Multicast for IPTV. If it was PPPoE then the access node wouldn't be able to replicate the IPTV onto the Ethernet for that connection.

gordonnet · 02-05-2016 11:06PM

Is there an option change the IPv6 DNS Servers, e.e change them to Open DNS IPv6 servers

IPv6Primary DNS:2620:0:ccc::2
Secondary DNS:2620:0:ccd::2

gordonnet · 02-05-2016 11:10PM

gordonnet wrote: »

Is there an option change the IPv6 DNS Servers, e.e change them to Open DNS IPv6 servers

IPv6Primary DNS:2620:0:ccc::2
Secondary DNS:2620:0:ccd::2

the IPv4 DNS Servers are set to Open DNS
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notahappycamper · 03-05-2016 09:44AM

Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6? Is one "better" than the other?

Cuddlesworth · 03-05-2016 10:14AM

notahappycamper wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6? Is one "better" than the other?

In reality, it makes no difference to the home user and won't for a long time.

IPv6 on Eir eFibre FTTC / FTTH

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