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I have just set up an 8800AXL router with my ISP, IDNet in anticipation of moving to FTTC on Friday, but I have been using it on my existing ADSL2+ connection in the mean time. If I configure it to automatically get the IP numbers from IDNet everything works fine and I get both IPv4 and IPv6 numbers, and I can access IPv4 and IPv6 websites.

However, if I try and configure it manually with the correct static IPv4 number and a valid IPv6 number, I get no IPv6 connectivity and according to the system log it is still acquiring the IPv4 number from the ISP. IPv4 connectivity is still fine though.

I have done exactly the same thing with my 7800DXL router and I have no problems whatsoever so it can't be an ISP issue. It isn't critical except that I wanted to set up a Thinkbroadband Quality Monitor on both the IPv4 and IPv6 numbers, hence the need for a static IPv6 number.

Any thoughts?

adrianchapman wrote:I have just set up an 8800AXL router with my ISP, IDNet in anticipation of moving to FTTC on Friday, but I have been using it on my existing ADSL2+ connection in the mean time. If I configure it to automatically get the IP numbers from IDNet everything works fine and I get both IPv4 and IPv6 numbers, and I can access IPv4 and IPv6 websites.

However, if I try and configure it manually with the correct static IPv4 number and a valid IPv6 number, I get no IPv6 connectivity and according to the system log it is still acquiring the IPv4 number from the ISP. IPv4 connectivity is still fine though.

I have done exactly the same thing with my 7800DXL router and I have no problems whatsoever so it can't be an ISP issue. It isn't critical except that I wanted to set up a Thinkbroadband Quality Monitor on both the IPv4 and IPv6 numbers, hence the need for a static IPv6 number.

Any thoughts?

It should be same setup as the 8800AXL shares the same OS/firmware as the 7800 series

Once setup try restarting the 8800AXL, normally for IDENT setup, everything should be set to auto