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IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree
- paulddraper 10y ago> As it turns out inviting the entire internet to ping my IP address might not be the best idea I ever had... Bandwidth is regularly maxing out at 300Mbit/s of incoming ICMPv6 traffic Oh, boy. I'm impressed it's still working.
- avian 10y agoI very much suspect that a lot of those ping6 packets are ignored. At 300 Mbit/s that would be around 400000 pings per second or less than 3 μs/flash. At that speed the camera would not register individual flashes.
- nabaffyub 10y agoIf his connection is actually saturated, he's more likely being packeted by someone trying to have fun.
- nujavcas 10y agoIPv6 keeps being a running joke. At least some people still have some sense of humour about it.
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- toast0 10y agoIPv6 is silently gaining a lot of steam lately. Akamai reports[1] close to 50% from comcast and att over ipv6, and 80% from verizon, 72% from t-mobile. Reliance Jio, a new mobile carrier in India is doing 47%. [1] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/state-of-the-internet-ipv6-adoption-visualization.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-inter... (click 'networks')
- geodel 10y agoThanks, very interesting data set. Shocking to see India went from 1% Ipv6 to 22% in just a period of 6 months or so due to Reliance Network.
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- djsumdog 10y agoIPv6 needed to happen a decade ago. We have exhausted the IPv4 space. I feel IPv6 suffered from huge usability issues, although it can be worked around with good provisioning systems that automatically setup DNS entries. We're going to get to the point where spinning up a VPS with an IPv4 address is going to get increasingly more and more expensive, unless we make some huge strides in moving to IPv6.
- nabaffyub 10y agoWe need to 1) force owners of legacy /8s to give up on them, and 2) make sure all mobile ISPs worldwide and residential connections in developing countries have their customers behind a CGNAT 2) would also help a lot with the upcoming IoT security shitstorm
- rroriz 10y agoCGNAT prevents users from hosting personal services - its a PitA.
- tlrobinson 10y agoYeah, I just discovered my ISP (WebPass) has exhausted their IPv4 allocation [1] and is transitioning residential customers to private IPv4 addresses, and I'm not really sure how to set up a VPN on IPv4 now. I guess I need to set up a tunnel over IPv6 somehow? 1. https://webpass.net/blog/ipv4-exhausted https://webpass.net/blog/ipv4-exhausted
- syncsynchalt 10y agoI (hope to) see CGNAT as the stick - with v6 being the carrot that allows point-to-point apps and personal hosting to work reliably again. That requires the ISP to offer v6, of course. I'm on Comcast which, say what you will about them, has been years ahead of everyone else for carrier-grade v6 support.
- dsl 10y agoYou do realize most of the legacy /8 owners are actively using them, right?
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- nine_k 10y agoPlaying music automatically once a page loads is not the best idea. Please avoid doing so when possible. Even in Christmas season.
- djsumdog 10y agoI think I'll wait a few days when everyone forgets about this, so I can actually see the effects of my pings .. if it's still up.
- jdcarter 10y agoI sent some yellow (f0:ff:0) pings, they definitely showed up.
- Zikes 10y agoSo that's like 16,581,375 IPv6 addresses right? How much would all of those cost?
- X-Istence 10y agoYou can get a /64 from many different providers for the cost of renting a single VPS from them...
- sp332 10y agoIPv6 officially keeps the last 64 bits for the "host" part of the address, which means that unless you are abusing the protocol, each subnet gets at least 2^64 addresses. Current "best practice" is for consumer ISPs to give each end-user at least a /48, that is 2^16 = 65,536 possible subnets' worth or 2^80 total address. Your mileage is going to vary depending on your ISP though. Edit: looks like the RFC has been updated to recommend smaller allocations where appropriate. Still keeps /64 as the smallest allowed subnet though. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177#page-4 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177#page-4 Edit2: fixed devices -> subnets.
- grahamedgecombe 10y ago> each device gets 2^64 addresses Each subnet gets 2^64 addresses. You can have multiple devices in the same subnet.
- evanreichard 10y agoYou can get several /48 and /64 IPv6 allocations from Hurricane Electics TunnelBroker for free.
- fgbs 10y agocan you provide some stats?
- cmurf 10y agoAnd now I'm convinced we're off the rails and should just revert to being an agrarian society.
- cesarb 10y agoEagerly awaiting a writeup explaining how it was done. It seems to be an Arduino with a pair of shields, the lower one being an Ethernet shield and the upper one perhaps a protoboard shield?
- drc0 10y agofinally an ipv6 killer feature!
- gumby 10y agoThe first IPv4 enabled Christmas tree made the front page of the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/25/business/cyberspace-is-looking-a-lot-like-christmas.html http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/25/business/cyberspace-is-loo...