Now that the Pace 5268AC has been out for a little while, has anyone found out if it is IPv6 friendly, especially when using your own firewall?
Motorola / Arris gateways tend to work fine, but they support DHCPv6-PD so your router can just request a prefix and it works fine (other than tweaking the MTU setting in some cases if you have problems). The RG handled the 6rd tunnel, and your router/firewall could treat it as a native IPv6 connection.
Pace/2wire products, on the other hand, tend to have less complete IPv6 support. They don't pass protocol 41 traffic in DMZplus mode, which beaks 6in4 tunnels. As of the last time I used one, they did not support DHCPv6-PD when using AT&T's 6rd service, so there was no way to use your own router and have working IPv6.
I need the ability to use IPv6 with my own firewall. Doesn't matter if it is native, 6rd, or a 6in4 tunnel. I'm considering ordering Gigapower if AT&T can ever correct their address database or fix whatever is stopping me from being able to get the service, but if IPv6 won't work, I will have to stick with TWC. If it was as easy as just asking for a NVG599, I would do that... but to the best of my knowledge, you get what is on the truck.
By the way... I see that the Sonic variant of the 5268AC has a true bridge mode, so some of their customers do have working IPv6 with their own firewalls.
On a side note, now that Arris owns Pace, the branding is going to get more confusing. I wonder which products will survive the merger - the Pace/2wire hardware and firmware, or the Motorola/Arris versions. Obviously they don't need two different hardware designs and two completely different firmware platforms.
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