Microsoft: Give Xbox One users IPv6 connectivity

[Marco Sommani]

On 14/mar/2014, at 07:08, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <evyncke at cisco.com> wrote:

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> On 14/03/14 00:21, "Marco Sommani" <marcosommani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> AVM is not alone in its choices: they just do what is suggested in RFC
>> 6092 - "Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises
>> Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service". I don't
>> like what they do, but maybe we should blame IETF.
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> Marco
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> I agree and disagree :-)
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> Agreement on the fact that AVM is not the only CPE vendor doing this (and
> also blaming ISP -- notably in my country 15% of broken IPv6 connectivity
> = Belgium)...
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> Disagreement: RFC 6092 has TWO settings: one close and one open and the
> choice should be given to the end-user. As you may know, there have been
> heated discussion at the IETF on this topic

One can configure exceptions on Fritz!Boxes too: just go to "Internet>Permit Access>IPv6". The problem is that they just allow exceptions for individual Interface Identifiers; no way to configure a "permit all". I'm wondering how many XBOX users are able to find their Interface ID.

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> -éric
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