I have Asuswrt-Merlin 384.5 installed on an RT-AC87R router. (Ubuntu 17.10, if that matters.)
I had never enabled IPV6. Today I was talking with tech support from my ISP (Charter/Spectrum) about a different issue. But I also asked, Does Charter support IPV6 where I am? The technician said they do, and that the modem they had supplied me will work with both IPv4 and IPV6. He said all I need to do is enable IPV6 support on my router. He urged me to make the change, because he said that more and more the world is converting over to that new standard.
So, on the IPV6 category I enabled IPV6, and just accepted all the default settings. (You can see that I attached a screenshot of the settings.) Then I clicked on "Apply". The result was that I completely lost my connection to my ISP.
I ended up having to change the IPV6 setting back to "Disabled", and reboot the router in order to regain internet connection.
I then spent most of the day looking online to understand what I should be doing to make the IPV6 setting work. I have eventually had to give up, there is far too much information out there, and I am not able to understand most of what is being said. I know so very, very little on the the topic of routers. Also, some of it seemed contradictory, so I didn't know who to trust.
Here are my questions:
1) Should I expect IPV6 to work with Asuswrt_Merlin 384.5?
2) Are the settings I show in the attached image correct?
3) Are there other settings on the router that I need to change?
I had never enabled IPV6. Today I was talking with tech support from my ISP (Charter/Spectrum) about a different issue. But I also asked, Does Charter support IPV6 where I am? The technician said they do, and that the modem they had supplied me will work with both IPv4 and IPV6. He said all I need to do is enable IPV6 support on my router. He urged me to make the change, because he said that more and more the world is converting over to that new standard.
So, on the IPV6 category I enabled IPV6, and just accepted all the default settings. (You can see that I attached a screenshot of the settings.) Then I clicked on "Apply". The result was that I completely lost my connection to my ISP.
I ended up having to change the IPV6 setting back to "Disabled", and reboot the router in order to regain internet connection.
I then spent most of the day looking online to understand what I should be doing to make the IPV6 setting work. I have eventually had to give up, there is far too much information out there, and I am not able to understand most of what is being said. I know so very, very little on the the topic of routers. Also, some of it seemed contradictory, so I didn't know who to trust.
Here are my questions:
1) Should I expect IPV6 to work with Asuswrt_Merlin 384.5?
2) Are the settings I show in the attached image correct?
3) Are there other settings on the router that I need to change?
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