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[TheUSMarshall]

Comcast is my ISP (i'm in Philly) and they recently added IPv6 support to my modem, or so it would appear. The odd thing is that, when checking my IP address (ipconfig) on my Windows SBS 2003 server, I am picking up the native IPv6 address that they've assigned me, but the rest of my machines (a combination of Win7 and Mac OS X 10.6.3) are only getting IPv6 addresses through Teredo.

I've read in a few forum postings that the DIR-655 supports IPv6 to a certain extent (which appears to e true based on the above), however, there are no configurable settings for IPv6 DHCP (only IPv4) and my router doesn't appear to be self-assigning an IPv6, or pulling one from Comcast for itself.

Is more robust IPv6 support something we can (hopefully?) expect to see in a future firmware revision? If not, do any users/admins out there have any advice on how to configure the DIR-655 to pass IPv6 addresses through to my other end-computers?

On a side note - my server is not sitting behind the DMZ, so I don't see that as being a differentiating factor. I do have some ports opened up on the router to facilitate things like remote desktop, HTTP, etc., to my server. I will say that the server is connected directly to the router via Gig-E, whereas the other machines are connecting via wireless.

Any thoughts/advice would be great!

[Cobra]

Unless your modem is the SB6120 it does not and will not support IPv6 nor does the DIR 655.
Comcast is just starting trials for IPv6 but you have to sign up for it.

Edit: If you want to sign up for the IPv6 trials then Click Here.

[TheUSMarshall]

I'm fairly certain that I already signed up for that... and my server is getting a native (not link-local) IPv6 address from somewhere, so i'm assuming they've already turned up my trial, but how can I be sure?

[Cobra]

The router does not support IPv6.

Comcast should have sent you something to let you know what equipment you would need for the trial.

Unless they are just testing tunneling right now.

[Ronneske]

when will the dir-655 support IPv6?

Any news on this?

[EddieZ]

Nope. My guess is it will never. It'll be EOL long before ISP will switch to IPv6 for mainstream use.

[uvz123]

They should support it few years after EOL! In opposite I'll never buy anything from dlink in the future.

[TheUSMarshall]

So it appears that the IPv6 address that my server is pulling is a local IP address (it starts with fe80), however, I am pulling a "real" IPv6 address from Microsoft's Teredo server. As a result, I can get to ipv6.google.com, but i'm not getting full IPv6 functionality. I will probably try out some sort of tunneling (found some free tunnel brokers out there) to see if I can get it that way.

Dear D-Link - it would be *awesome* if you add IPv6 support. A lot of us would be greatly appreciative if you could add this as the DIR-655 has been the best router i've owned thus far.

[EddieZ]

They should support it few years after EOL! In opposite I'll never buy anything from dlink in the future.

Who says? So it will never be End of Life? No manufacturer does. MS doesn't support Win98 (or soon XP) anymore. That's the cycle of consumner electronics, so unless you got some convincing arguments (that go a bit further than "they should") to have manufaturers spend money on long gone devices I am afraid you will have live with that.