In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Is it an HG612 or an ECI modem?

HG612. It definitely works with my old 6300 so the problem is something to do with the 8800. Unfortunately it's /damn/ difficult to know what if anything I've got configured wrongly. Clearly it works fine for IPv4 albeit requiring two or three attempts to get an actually functional connection. I think that was the same with PN.

There's a more recent firmware available that I might try at the weekend however I need to steal myself to make a note of all the settings I've changed for port forwarding.

Edited by Andrue (Tue 06-Jun-17 22:41:53)

I see Bill says there that he has an ASUS RT-N66U and a Billion, both identical to what I have. Except I'm using the Billion in modem/router mode and the ASUS is sitting unused, whereas Bill must have a separate modem as the ASUS doesn't have one.

If I get chance tomorrow, (it could be a busy day), I'll power up my ASUS and have a look at its IPv6 settings, see if I can get a cross-match with my Billion, as the GUI layouts are completely different, then perhaps post up my ASUS settings for AAISP and see how they compare to Bill's for IDNet.

With luck I'll then be able to suggest Billion settings for you.

Edit: Strikeouts because I had brain-fade about Bill's Billion.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 07-Jun-17 00:08:33)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I see Bill says there that he has an ASUS RT-N66U and a Billion, both identical to what I have. Except I'm using the Billion in modem/router mode whereas Bill must have a separate modem as the ASUS doesn't have one.

Yes, I had the standard BT modem... but have you got a Billion 7800? It's an old router and, iirc, didn't have a VDSL modem...

Edited by billford (Wed 07-Jun-17 00:18:45)

Sorry, I misread your post . Mine's the 8800NL R2 that Andrue has.

It's more a question of comparing my ASUS settings with yours so I can translate yours into Billion 8800 speak.

I did a compare and contrast between my Billion 6800 and my 8800 but the 6800 has a much simpler configuration. You pretty much just fill in the obvious fields and that's that.

The 8800 has multiple interfaces and interface groups and is more complicated. But I'd expect the 8800nl r2 to work because that's the same router that IDNet supply. Unfortunately the 8800 manual is badly written as well as confusing. For instance it talks about 'EWAN profile' in several places but never tells you how to activate it. I think it just means 'when port 4 is being used to connect to an external WAN' (my setup) but calling it a 'profile' is just confusing.

Edited by Andrue (Wed 07-Jun-17 07:55:15)

According to IDNet support the 8800 is simply not asking for IPv6 :-/

OK. I had that initially. Will look this afternoon.

It is definitely the R2, book shaped and black? Their website shows its white curvy predecessor.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 07-Jun-17 10:51:42)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

OK. I had that initially. Will look this afternoon.

It is definitely the R2, book shaped and black? Their website shows its white curvy predecessor.

Mine is the grey and white 'ugly' R2, not sure about IDNet's.

However there is a possibility that the problem is where I've plugged the EWAN cable. I had a reply on the Billion support forum saying that I should plug the cable from the OR modem into the EWAN port. Now that's kinda obvious but when I read that my initial thought was "It doesn't have one - that's why P4 can be either EWAN or ETH".

So I'm just wondering if I do have it plugged into P4 as if I was bridging to both the internet and a separate network. That might explain the problems it has getting a connection if it thinks it ought to have:

* A WAN (actually the internet)
* An internet connection (not connected).

Maybe that works for IPv4 because of NAT but the IPv6 side is being bypassed somehow. Perhaps in that mode the WAN layer ignores IPv6 because it 'knows' it should come from the internet connection.

The manual doesn't seem terribly clear: 'Note: P4 can be configured as EWAN, and when the device is in EWAN profile, there is no
P4/EWAN interface as P4 is working as a WAN port'

Edited by Andrue (Wed 07-Jun-17 11:11:38)

Sorted! Yes, I was plugged into the correct port. A reply on the Billion forum listed a few settings and last of all was:

'enable 'Issue Router Advertisements' in the LAN>>IPv6 Autoconfig section.'

..and that seems to have done. That's really not obvious. It's completely separate from where you enable IPv6 on the WAN service.