@Hank21 

Thank you, I will try with the first link, the second is in controller mode, which I am not using - I just purchased this as a standalone router from Amazon.

The first issue though, which is quite a significant one, is that the: "IPv6 Enable [  ]" option isn't even dispayed on the WAN>LAN page.

That said, I managed to resolve that (you have to enable another option elsewhere before this appears), there are then several setup fields which have fields which MUST be completed - but are either greyed out (but do have a non-functioning cursor) or are a white box - but with NO cursor.
 

• Firmware 1.3.1 Build 20251009
• Hardware V1
• Prefix Delegation form fields (WAN, Prefix, Prefix Length) won't accept input
• WAN dropdown greyed out, other fields ignore keyboard/paste

Now I am sure with the right settings elsewhere, these might then work, but simply going through the manual results in entry fields that simply do not work - but ARE mandatory.

Hence not really trying to work with manuals that don't seem to correlate with what we get / see on the latest firmware - but a simple "Follow this procedure to make it work".

I have had a message from a Reddit user that managed to make it work (apparently after several hours) and has a "backup" of his settings he was going to send me - but of course doesn't want to share his ISP passwords etc. He is gong to try to screen grab the settings pages.

Thank you for the link to the manuals.

If I find the actual "step by step" process that WORKS, I will try make a tiny "Idiots Guide to IPv6 on the ER707-M2", it seems I am not alone in finding the procedure "challenging".




 

are you having same issue I am having where it getting the Ipv4 and ipv6 asinged but not giving out the lpv6 on the lan side ?

if so i noticed that when router does self setup it only self setups the lan  DHCP for the lan IPV4 the router does not setup any options for the DHCP ipv6 on the local area network side lan side.

so ISP give router both IPV4 and IPV6 but router only setups up the DHCP for the lan via IPv4 

so the router pretty makes user have to setup the DHCP settings for the Lan part and this is required for pc to get IPV6 address

that being said the router seems to have anther issue and thats with a setting has to do with flow rates and levels I cant remember where it is but you have option to enable or disable it..

but it seems that nether disable or enable it changes anything it always splits the down load by 25% on for levels 1 2 3 and 4 and there no control for user so even if you get router running with latest frimeware you bandiwdth be 25% of what it should be on the download even with that setting disabled.

i ended up going back to my edge 1 gig router because on my 2 gig ISP its faster than this ER707-m2 router 

due to that four way 25% split.

  @shardy 

I admit that I started to look at other routers too for IPV6 work. The ER707 seems so utterly counter-intuitive, that I was spending more time on it that it was worth. I didn't however encounter the issue you mention where the download is reduced to 25% etc.

Until it was replaced, the download speed at least was ok, it did seem to permit pretty much full bandwidth on the fibre modem (nominally 2.5Gbit) but I didn't try to alter the "flow rate" at all. I just wanted "maximum throughput on IPV6 inbound to a server".

The general feeling is that someone "added on IPV6" ability at the last moment, and wanted to make it the most counter-intuitive mess they could - and then had a bet with the person that write the manual, that they could ensure it was easier to complete the GCHQ code puzzles, that it was to make IPV6 work (once you had updated the firmware so it was at least possible).

The hardware in this box seems to be respectable - no issue with throughput for me - but the firmware was very much the "Dos-4 / Windows 8" of the router world.

Were there any subsequent firmware updates to make it "less awful" - it's a shame to just let it sit in the "grot box" in the server room.

The router we switched to (do not recall make), basically involved the following, (bold items I felt important but are strictly speaking, optional)

Make Cup of Tea
Login:
Go to IPV4 / IPV6 Options > Enable IPV6
Configure DHCP
Reboot
Sip Tea as still too hot to glug (but server now happy with IPV6 connection)

Defaults pretty much worked for everything else.

Mark