If any Sonic Technical Support Gurus are listening: It's been two years and five days since gvdl posted the following issue to this forum, concerning the setup of ipv6 addressing:
Although these entries correspond with Apple's Time Capsule's Interface, unfortunately, gvdl did not reveal or offer a link to "the 2 ipv6 addresses" he mentioned and knows about. What do I need to do to drink the kool-ade?
Thing is, I don't have Time Capsule: I simply need to configure iPv6 settings correctly on a new Netgear Router SetUp Admin Login Screen. Why, the world and its devices are soon going to run out of IP addresses if the number of mobile continues to increase. Said addresses are virtually limitless when using IPv6. But in the IPv6 Setup Screen, the local Netgear configuration interface proposes settings options, but I am confused about how to to set them up, as was Support, who punted me over to this forum.
Could a network specialist suggest which settings to select to ensure a correct and solid configuration? FYI, I have an active Sonic DSL Elite Pro account using DHCP. ipv4 is working fire, but we have many wireless clients in a small home with daily IP address conflicts. I
I sincerely hope that the richer feature set of ipv6 will help alleviate our problems. Here are settings more or less as they appear on the routerlogin.com screen in Netgear's client.
I did try speaking with Customer Support at Sonic today, but they referred me to these forums. I felt basically blowed off when they stated that they are not simply not trained to help out with those types of questions. Maybe they should me: I think they named it call escalation in most CS centers. ipv6 was started as a project in the early 1990's and met FCC readiness deadlines to deploy ipv6 technologies around the world in 2002. It's already 11 years later, but the Sonic Support Staff member that I spoke with apologized that he could little more to help that send me to forums. I recommend that they be trained to deal with ipv6, and that whenever they do not something, rather than punting us over to forums that can take 2 years to get answered, make them go the extra mile to connect with a knowledgeable networking employee in your organization who's well-trained, knowledgeable and more than happy to help. It was honestly my first disappointment with a Sonic Support Agent since I first became a customer over 10 years ago.
So, can someone in the know please post the most appropriate configuration settings that would allow for the easy setup of "tunnels" using IPv6. Even better, gather relevant information and post it as a Knowledgebase Article that could be consulted by your staff as well as by your subscribers.
Thank you,
Paul (alias ahava)
Sonic only gives 2 ipv6 address when apparently 3 are needed:
- WAN ipv6 Address=
ipv6 default route=
LAN ipv6 Address=
All I have is Transport:: 2001:<manyhexdigits>/127 & Network:: 2001:<manyhexdigits/60.
Does anybody have a guess how to translated these into the 4 time capsule fields?
Although these entries correspond with Apple's Time Capsule's Interface, unfortunately, gvdl did not reveal or offer a link to "the 2 ipv6 addresses" he mentioned and knows about. What do I need to do to drink the kool-ade?
Thing is, I don't have Time Capsule: I simply need to configure iPv6 settings correctly on a new Netgear Router SetUp Admin Login Screen. Why, the world and its devices are soon going to run out of IP addresses if the number of mobile continues to increase. Said addresses are virtually limitless when using IPv6. But in the IPv6 Setup Screen, the local Netgear configuration interface proposes settings options, but I am confused about how to to set them up, as was Support, who punted me over to this forum.
Could a network specialist suggest which settings to select to ensure a correct and solid configuration? FYI, I have an active Sonic DSL Elite Pro account using DHCP. ipv4 is working fire, but we have many wireless clients in a small home with daily IP address conflicts. I
I sincerely hope that the richer feature set of ipv6 will help alleviate our problems. Here are settings more or less as they appear on the routerlogin.com screen in Netgear's client.
- Internet Connection Type: Options available:
(a) Auto Detect (b) 6to4 Tunnel (c) Pass Through (d) Fixed (e) DHCP (f) PPPoE (g) Auto Config
ipv6 Connection Type: No options here unless after it's been configured.
WAN Now Reads: Router's IPv6 Address On WAN Not Available. (No choice but to leave as is.)
Under LAN Setup, these Netgear Router settings specify how LAN IP Address Assignments are determined:
Use DHCP Server
Auto Config
I did try speaking with Customer Support at Sonic today, but they referred me to these forums. I felt basically blowed off when they stated that they are not simply not trained to help out with those types of questions. Maybe they should me: I think they named it call escalation in most CS centers. ipv6 was started as a project in the early 1990's and met FCC readiness deadlines to deploy ipv6 technologies around the world in 2002. It's already 11 years later, but the Sonic Support Staff member that I spoke with apologized that he could little more to help that send me to forums. I recommend that they be trained to deal with ipv6, and that whenever they do not something, rather than punting us over to forums that can take 2 years to get answered, make them go the extra mile to connect with a knowledgeable networking employee in your organization who's well-trained, knowledgeable and more than happy to help. It was honestly my first disappointment with a Sonic Support Agent since I first became a customer over 10 years ago.
So, can someone in the know please post the most appropriate configuration settings that would allow for the easy setup of "tunnels" using IPv6. Even better, gather relevant information and post it as a Knowledgebase Article that could be consulted by your staff as well as by your subscribers.
Thank you,
Paul (alias ahava)
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