Disable IPv6 on One Router (Huawei DN8245X6-10)

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broonie27

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#3362362 9-Apr-2025 19:08

ratbag359:

If the settings I showed are off and you have powered off the device and powered it back on and also no other router on the network it won't have a ipv6 address.
I am thinking you have a different issue.

When I disable each of these settings I get the following respective messages, is that what you got?

ratbag359

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#3362364 9-Apr-2025 19:22

Yes click ok then click save.

broonie27

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#3362476 9-Apr-2025 20:19

OK, that seems to have worked this time, the device is now only getting a unique local address (fd7d). I know that I tried that before but I must have forgotten to restart the router. I was trying a lot of things on the device :-)

broonie27

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#3364225 15-Apr-2025 10:53

Is there a way to stop the device getting an IPv6 address completely?

ratbag359

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#3364236 15-Apr-2025 11:20

No, Android has no setting to disable the ipv6 stack.

Removing ipv6 from your network is the most you can do.

As it is it doesn't have a ipv6 address only the link local and that is not considered a internet address.

broonie27

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#3364368 15-Apr-2025 18:28

So where is the device getting those ULAs from, if it's not the DHCP server on the router?

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ratbag359

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#3364372 15-Apr-2025 18:40

Can you screenshot network info.

How many devices on your network and what are they.

broonie27

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#3364535 16-Apr-2025 07:28

Actually, I don't think IPv6 is the issue now. As a test I used my Android phone instead of the Fire TV and turned "airplane" mode on and everything worked from the phone itself. I then tried casting from my phone to a Chromecast but it then started failing again with a geo-blocking error, so it looks like my location is being picked from somewhere other than just my IP address on the Fire TV ( and the the Chromecast).

ratbag359

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#3364541 16-Apr-2025 07:52

I use a vpn service on my google tv to bypass geoblocking due to it opening the app on it.

I have not used firestick so don't know how they work.

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