IPv6

[emiliosic1]

Got a new Fios service installed with ethernet only (No FIOS router). IPv5 works fine, but IPv6 is not offered. Why is IPv6 not active?

[jonjones1]

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@emiliosic wrote:

Got a new Fios service installed with ethernet only (No FIOS router). IPv5 works fine, but IPv6 is not offered. Why is IPv6 not active?

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I think you mean IPv4

the IPv6 standard I believe has not been fully adopted yet by many ISP's

but should be available soon.

https://www.verizon.com/support/consumer/consumer-education/ipv6

Good Luck

[emiliosic1]

No, I mean IPv6. Verizon has been claiming support por IPv6 for several years in certain regions, with claims of legacy equipment not supporting it.

https://www.verizon.com/support/consumer/consumer-education/ipv6

I have no legacy equipment: Newly installed CPE, with ethernet to my router, which fully supprots IPv6. My home network has IPv6, in fact when conencting between devices on my home network, many of them work over IPv6 first with fallback to IPv4 (ie Mac and Linux media servers), but I cannot get IPv6 connectivity through the newly installed FiOS.

[CRobGauth]

The link you provided said they are rolling out dual stack regionally.

Could be that your region doesn't have it yet.

Is there really much ipv6 only content out there?

[jonjones1]

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@CRobGauth wrote:

The link you provided said they are rolling out dual stack regionally.

Could be that your region doesn't have it yet.

Is there really much ipv6 only content out there?

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Actually not that much at present. Time Warner/Now Charter also has not rolled out IPv6 yet. I believe it has been placed in a testing phase. And testing 

http://ipv6-test.com

[tns2]

Note the rollout has suppose to be coming since at least 2013.  I don't know if they actually have done any rollout at all.

Testing has been going on for a long long time.

[JasonJehosephat]

You wrote " IPv5 works fine, but IPv6 is not offered." There is no such thing as IPv5. He was assuming that you meant IPv4 instead of IPv5.

[emiliosic1]

That was a typo, sorry. I mean IPv4 works of course.

[Seeker1437]

IPv5 is actually Internet Streaming Protocol but it never took off.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol

From the doc linked earlier, you can test for IPv6 connectivity here:

http://test-ipv6.com/

[rhcev6]

You not goin g to see it I don't think.  NAT/PAT pretty much eliminated the need for it for all but large IP space users.  I do consulting for fortune 500's with Linux and first thing many do is disable IPv6.

1) there is too much $$ tied up in IPv4 IPs.  If you don't believe my try to get a second one from FIOS (like to rtr load ballancing) and see how much it costs.

2) How many residential users use NAT overload as the PRIMARY and maybe ONLY security.  Who will be responsible for security isues when China can hit EVERYTHING on your network??

3) IPv6 has no NAT/PAT and can't pratically be subnetted.

You are FAR morelikly to see an updated IPv5 with 111.222.333.444.555 format and for backward compatability the first octet defaults to 000 or 001 AND has NAT/PAT so it is an EXACT match functionally to IPv4.  Also VERY easy to geotag as each country can get their own first octet IP space which would be over 200 times larger than what we have now and be VERY easy to use and understand.