It’s likely something broken in AT&T’s implementation - I have a G5 (10.5.8) 
with Comcast and native dual stack which works just fine.

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> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Jerry Kemp <ot...@oryx.us> wrote:
> 
> Just curious if something specifically is broken or non-fixable with the 
> 10.6.8 IPv6 stack?
> 
> I'm specifically wondering if you did any troubleshooting to resolve this?  
> Or if just disabling IPv6 was the quick'n'dirty answer?
> 
> I'm excited for IPv6, but many of my Apple devices I have held back at 10.6 
> as the number of features that Apple took away seem to increase exponentially 
> after 10.6.x.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> On 03/26/16 11:31 AM, Tapley, Mark wrote:
>> (Apologies in advance to non-Apple users)
>> 
>> Mac folks,
>>      Last week AT&T “upgraded” our Uverse service. All of our Macs running 
>> anything 10.6.8 or older quit working.
>>      Cure was to turn off IPv6: System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> 
>> TCP/IP -> iPv6 to “Off” instead of “Automatic”.
>> 
>>      Symptoms were *very* widespread, and matched reasonably well to failing 
>> hard drive or failing memory - system freeze, spinning beach-ball forever, 
>> can’t read directory, etc. etc. etc.  On the G3, I rebooted in single-user 
>> mode and actually got part way through the output of “ps -aux” in one case 
>> before freezing. However it did respond to Ctl-C and would then do a “ps -a” 
>> no problem, just no “ps -aux”.  We were a bit silly, didn’t read our Uverse 
>> email, and didn’t test other systems before hooking more old systems into 
>> the network - which then didn’t work. We were panicing about viruses, 
>> pulling hair out, sacrificing goats ...
>> 
>>      Systems affected were :
>> 
>> iMac G3 Mac OS X 10.4.11  - ethernet
>> PowerBook G4 Mac OS X 10.4.11 - wi-fi
>> iMac 2011 intel Mac OS X 10.6.8 - wi-fi
>> 
>>      Apologies if this is a known bug, but it really puzzled us for a while 
>> because the effects were so systemic; I hope I can prevent anybody else from 
>> getting a nice new (needless) hard drive like the 2011 iMac did…
>> 
>>                                      - Mark
>>                                      210-522-6025 office         
>> 210-379-4635    cell
>> 

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