Bell Canada → [Internet] Real bridge mode is coming to GigaHub

Right. It's really not usable for anything at all. I can ping out v6 addresses right from the router, but there's no v6 connectivity on the LAN side. (yes, I do understand routing of subnets ) Virgin also doesn't do WHI this is a Bell retail product.

No surprise that WHI doesn’t have DHCP-PD enabled since it’s running on the cell infrastructure side of things and cell phones don’t use DHCP-PD. So why would Bell turn on DHCP-PD on their cell network for an IPv6 test on VirginPlus FTTH?

Fwiw, I enabled IPv6 on my FTTH connection at home. Heh. Who knows now.

That is not true actually. Phones when tethering do use DHCPv6-PD to retrieve a block and assign a /64 to the hotspot. Android and iOS have supported this for ages. But I'm not a Bell customer to know if that is supported or not. If the network does not provide support the phone just does v4 only hotspots.

I think a new thread about IPv6 on Bell should be created. This discussion is off topic in this thread. And it will be easier to find in the future if someone needs to find this discussion.

Just start a new thread without moving posts.

You get a DHCP-PD /56 on the WAN side, and the LAN side assigns a /64 out of that /56 for your client devices. You've got 256 /64s to use as your own subnets however you see fit, or even PD /60s of your own further down the chain.

Oh WHI they assign a single IPv6 IP to the WAN side of the router and that's it. You can't pull anything using DHCP-PD.

Can we please discuss IPv6 in the new thread: »[Internet] IPv6 on Bell (and brands owned by Bell)

You guys want this thread closed? Please treat each other with respect. It is hard when two topics are somewhat interlinked. Please accept that without going after each other.

Only later it was found out that the "real" bridge mode was not bridge mode either.

This thread should move into the past.

Only mods can close threads here. As there were no violations in this thread the mod wouldn't touch it, I suppose. Let's just stop posting here and the thread will move into the past like hundreds others.

If you knew the history of "real" bridge mode you wouldn't say so. Many people called PPPoE passthrough "bridge mode". It works the same from the user point of view but technically it's not bridge mode. This thread started over half a year ago. At that time the rumor was that Bell would enable real bridge mode, i.e., not PPPoE passthrough, hence the term stuck. Only later it was found out that the "real" bridge mode was not bridge mode either. Now it's common knowledge but at the time it was all new.