HELP!-Can't get IPv6 address from DLink Wireless router

[OatMan]

Using WinXP Pro and Motorola WN825G wireless card in a laptop.

Don't have access to the DLink wireless router in friends appartment that is apparently serving IPv6 addresses via DHCP and NAT internally.

An apple MAC Book has an IPv6 address via DHCP from this router and is functioning no problem.

I seem to be able to enter the WEP "key" and connect to the router just fine. I just can't get an IP address. It seems that the laptop is currently configured to look for an address from the older addressing scheme, and I just can't figure out how to change it to look for an IPv6 address from DHCP.

Motorola Tech Support claims that no one is trained for IPv6 support and that they can not help. So apparently their tool is unable to be configured for an IPv6 address which I find hard to believe.

Can someone help? Am I on a totally wrong track?

TIA

 

[bruceb]

Do you have XP SP2 installed ? ?
I think it is needed for IPV6 use

See this link for how to setup XP
to be able to use IPV6

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: OatMan
An apple MAC Book has an IPv6 address via DHCP from this router and is functioning no problem.

Are you seeing an actual DHCP logfile that shows an IPv6 address being assigned? It seems more likely that the Apple is just assigning itself a link local address rather than actually getting it from the router's DHCP service. Which means that the problem lies elsewhere - authentication, drivers, or some other piece of network configuration.

If the router really is handing out IPv6 addresses (which I doubt), that's still screwy. There's no way it should be handing out IPv6 addresses and not IPv4's unless someone specifically configured it that way. If someone did that knowingly, then they should have the expertise to make the clients work with it. If someone did that unknowingly, then who knows what else on the router got changed around? Reset to a default configuration and start from there.

 

[OatMan]

Thanks for the insites.

I just assumed that since I saw that the apple had an IPv6 address via DHCP that it was IPv6 addresses that the router was ginving out. But it seemed screwy to me too. I don't know what else to make of it...

What your saying (cleverhandle) about that being kind of a red herring makes sense to me. So this begs the question... What the heck is going on? I have had no trouble getting ip numbers from other wireless routers, just this one. And I can't have any access to it as the people my friend lives with are a bit eccentric and paranoid and won't let me touch it.

please advise.

 

[cleverhandle]

Can't really help you much past that - wireless is not an area I have much experience with. I'm guessing it's going to be hard to troubleshoot if you don't have access to the AP, but it would probably help people to know exactly what models and wireless techs you're talking (A/B/G, WEP/WPA, etc.). You might also make the thread title a bit more generic, since I'd guess that some people will pass over an IPv6 thread, given that so few people have any experience with it.

But, hey - if these people really are tinfoil hat types, then they maybe they really did configure the access point for IPv6. It's possible on certain kinds of firmware, just not something that normal people would do...

 

[OatMan]

Thanks for the advice. What a wierd experience. I never figured out what the issue was but the card has never had an issue before or since. I was not allowed any access to the router so my hands were tied. I told my buddy to get his own wireless router since his housemates are whacks!

 

[spidey07]

The year is 2006. IPv6 is dead as a doornail.

 

[jersiq]

Just a stab in the dark, without being able to look at the equipment:

Maybe someone went into the router and configured MAC Filtering.

Just a guess though, as you can't verify the settings on the router.