Vodafone Business Broadband IPv6

[jamesmacwhite]

Hi,

I recently decided to take up Vodafone Business Broadband (SuperFast 2) as a second line which is being activated next week. I was just wondering what the situation with Vodafone and IPv6 is? I've seen different posts on various forums around it. I'm getting a static IPv4 under this package, but I wondered if IPv6 is enabled and that it is a static IPv6 prefix? I'm aware Vodafone uses PPPoE and I'm planning to use the DrayTek Vigor 130 modem in bridge mode to pass this through to my OpenWrt router on one of it's LAN ports configured in VLAN as a separate WAN interface.

Does anyone have any information on the current status of IPv6 for business broadband customers at all?

Thank you in advance!

[jamesmacwhite]

I'll reply, in case others find this interested in the answer.

It would appear that currently as the time of writing this (18th September 2020), IPv6 is not enabled on business lines at least. With my DrayTek 130 passing through the VDSL connection to my OpenWrt router, I am only able to obtain my static IPv4 address through PPPoE. No IPv6 is provided. I tried with a DHCPv6 interface as an alias of the PPPoE interface but nothing is obtained. So this would suggest currently, the business lines do not have it, unless DHCPv6 is not used, but it is usually the most common way to get a IPv6 prefix via RA.

I have seen posts that suggests it may have been active for some customers on a trial basis, but not the entire customer base.