Can I disable IPv6 or at least show information about it on Apple TV devices?

My Apple TV boxes are getting IPv6 assignments, unfortunately it takes a while for them to appear listed on the server in order to reassign them to their permanent locations and make rules based off on that.


Regardless, Apple TV clearly is using IPv6 to communicate. Shown by the portion of an IPv6 address listed after the IPv6 DNS servers which it wouldn't have gotten without listening to router advertisements yet there's zero information or control for it in the UI. I also found another post of the newer Apple TVs apparently making router advertisements when they, I think, don't receive any. If that is true, it's such an overreach and intrusion of Apple to make such determinations and not give the user control about it. It's effectively a backdoor into networks regardless of how benign it may claim to be.


The post was closed, so there was that. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to post myself as this site is always broken throwing me into an auth loop. It went well if you're reading this, I guess.


Is there a hidden control to access these settings? There are places in Apple TV's menu system where you can double-tap* or tap*-and-hold the upper or some other part of the Siri remote. Is there something like that for this?


*: as in touch, not click.


Are there MDM settings for IPv6? The Apple TVs are bound to an MDM server but I do not recall that many settings for them. In fact, the only useful settings has been being able to get rid of most of Apple's first party useless apps.


If I force it to use a proxy, would it attempt to bypass it over IPv6 if the proxy is IPv4-only? So far the only solution I can think of is managing that IPv6 subnet the way the same subnet is managed in IPv4: default deny all traffic and pass on a need-be basis, not that it's default allow right now, but it is much more permissive than most of the network which is a concern and though it's only a /120 to keep a tight 1:1-ish relationship with IPv4, service-mapping of IPv6 traffic is still beginning.

Posted on Dec 17, 2023 7:44 PM

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