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A friend of mine had a similar "issue". He had a modem too new to be on Comcast's approved list so they refused to register it. After plugging it in anyways, IP
by zaphoyd 13y ago
A friend of mine had a similar "issue". He had a modem too new to be on Comcast's approved list so they refused to register it. After plugging it in anyways, IPv4 was filtered to a Comcast captive portal with modem registration instructions but IPv6 stuff worked fine... whoops.
- p1mrx 13y agoFascinating, does that mean you can plug a random DOCSIS 3.0 modem into any Comcast port, and get free IPv6 access? That's an effective way to encourage deployment, but I'm sure they'll fix the bug if they haven't already :-)
- wmf 13y agoJust like all the places that are only firewalling IPv4 (I blame the iptables/ip6tables split).