Router - Cisco IPv6 IOS Versions

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Known working versions of IOS

Router IOS Version Image Name Connection Who Working
837 12.3 c837-k9o3sy6-mz.123-11.T10.bin PPPoA Nhumfrey ✓
887 15.0 c880data-universalk9-mz.150-1.M9.bin PPPoA Nhumfrey ✗ IPV6CP being rejected

TCP window scaling Bug

Taken from: http://aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-ipv6-tech.html

Some customers running native IPv6 on a Cisco 877 router have seen a huge disparity between IPv4 and IPv6 speeds. IPv6 file transfers are about 10 times slower than IPv4 transfers!

It turns out to be a Cisco IOS bug; once the IPv6 stateful firewall (inspect) has been disabled, IPv6 should run at full speed.

It is Cisco bug CSCtb10776 (Inspection drops NIC-segmented packets when WScale is on). It can also be worked around by disabling TCP window scaling on the affected hosts, but that can have performance implications of its own. It has been fixed in IOS versions:

  • 15.1(0.18)T
  • 12.4(25b)M0.13
  • 15.0(1)M1.2
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