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You contract with a tunnel broker (most, if not all, are free) to give you an address. If you have a lan then you can set up radvd (or similar) to distribute a
by quintushoratius 7y ago
You contract with a tunnel broker (most, if not all, are free) to give you an address.
If you have a lan then you can set up radvd (or similar) to distribute addresses. You may need to replace your router though.
Your ipv6 packets head out over a 4to6 tunnel to your broker, and then out to the wider world.
- drdaeman 7y agoNah, that's not the problem/solution, not in the ISP context. It's trivial for most ISPs (unless they have ton of ancient hardware and neglected to upgrade, or if they have very poor and limited peering options) to obtain an IPv6 block and set it up on their backbone network. All the complexity is about providing this to the end users. Depending on your tech stack, you may have no issues, or you may need to replace just about everything (NASes, accounting/billing system, etc - whatever pieces were built with IPv4-only in mind) Source: I worked for an ISP a while ago. We got our servers IPv6 connectivity, in, like, a day. We haven't solved IPv6 end-user connectivity (but it really wasn't a priority then), although was we had a few experimental connections - with lots of duct tape and random end-user issues whenever something was misconfigured (e.g. at the time not every site's AAAA record was actually responding, despite the existence).