Jeff C.   I am very pleased to see that eero has released official support for IPv6.  

In fact, I have been running the IPv6 beta version since early this year.   I have IPv6 from Comcast and it has worked reliably with out any problems since I first installed it.   I am very pleased how well it works.

Thanks!!!!

Jeff C. That's great news. Thanks Jeff! Too bad I couldn't use my Eero network and had to send them back. I'm ready to jump back onboard. Any way to get my original discount back?

Jeff C. Thank you to the eero team for listening and implementing IPV6. Look forward to turning it on.

Jeff C. Fantastic work to you and the eero team!  It was only eight days ago that we suspected that this would be weeks (or months) away... and here we are with a bona fide release.  The rapid response is very much appreciated, even after a very long information drought.  Kudos!  😸

Also, thank all of you folks on here for voicing your wants/needs for IPv6 👍

Jeff C. This is great news. However, it appears that if you use Eero plus features, the DNS servers used do not support IPv6. This limits the functionality since the is no IPv6 name resolution.  Does this need to be reported to the development team?

 Jeff C.   I'm a Eero plus user as well - interested to hear more about this issue w/DNS servers. 

Just went to an IPV6 test site ( http://test-ipv6.com/ ), and received this result:

Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 Internet, or is not configured to use it. This may in the future restrict your ability to reach IPv6-only sites. [more info]

Danabw When I run the test, I get 10/10.  I am not seeing an eero DNS problem.  See attached.  

Jeff C. You were so pumped to write this on this thread weren't you? :) 

rmh Are you an Eero Plus user? This issue appears to be seen (so far) when Eero Plus is enabled. 

Danabw I am not using Eero Plus.

rmh Thanks for confirming that you are not using Eero Plus.  Eero Plus uses different DNS servers that don't appear to support IPV6. 

 Jeff C.  Good idea to confirm w/your Dev and QA teams that their testing includes Eero Plus and any other add-on/fee based services you offer. 

Hi everyone — thanks for chiming in and for your questions regarding using IPv6 with eero Plus. Before getting into more details, I wanted to make one thing clear. With eero Plus enabled, you're still able to communicate to the IPv6 Internet. However, because of how eero Plus works, DNS requests are intercepted on your gateway eero and passed to our DNS service. For that reason, we've seen issues with the tests from test-ipv6.com , however, if you try going to ipv6.google.com or searching what is your IP, you will see that IPv6 is indeed working.

For those who want to take things a step further, you can go into your computer's terminal and do a "dig AAAA google.com" which will also display the IPv6 address that the site is connecting to.

In all cases, DNS lookups of a domain name do return the IPv6 AAAA record and all subsequent communications do go over the IPv6 internet (assuming available from your provider). The DNS lookup step of a request is unique in the eero Plus case.

Jeff C. Thanks for clarifying the info here, Jeff, very helpful.  And thanks for helping to make this happen.

Jeff C. I'm not getting those results.  When I browse to https://ipv6.google.com/, I get

This site can’t be reached

ipv6.google.com ’s server IP address could not be found.

 

• Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

I have restarted my network gear and my computers.  I have also tried this from several systems with similar results.

One item to note is that my eero is not configuring an IPv6 DNS server, but I am getting IPv6 network adapter addresses.

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

mike1234i Sorry for the delay! After speaking with some of our engineers, they noted that this seems like there is another upstream router put in front of your eeros. Is that the case in your network?

Jeff C. I am using Uverse. They only offer routers, not modems — so by definition they route traffic. However, I am passing the public IP though to the eero, so the eero received the public DHCP IP address directly from my ISP. 

Jeff C. I feel bad for not figuring this out sooner. I use a Circle web filter for my kids and I forgot that I left it on for me. Circle operates by intercepting DNS requests and it was obviously interfering with the v6 responses. After disabling my filtering all IPv6 sites are working great. Sorry to sidetrack this discussion. Hopefully someone can learn from my mistake. 

Jeff C. Yay! ... now onto the missing features.

IPv6 incoming connections are blocked (a safe default) with no way to open ports in the firewall for them (bad). It kinda defeats the purpose of IPv6 if you can't allow inbound connections when you _want_ them.

That appears to be tracked in https://community.eero.com/t/63rn4v/allow-ipv6-machines-to-accept-incoming-connections

Jeff C. 

Installed my new Eero today and I can say your IPv6 support is lacking at best. You only offer an on/off switch with an expectation of DHCPv6. 

I realize that static IPv6 isn't exactly a common configuration, but you can't say you support IPv6 if you only support specific configuration. I can't even find a way to spin up my own DHCPv6 server and point the eero at it.

I wasn't impressed with support, who tried explaining to me that my IPv6 autoconfig address (fe80::) was my WAN address.