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> With DHCPv6, the network operator can force your device to obtain only single IP address. So if your network admin does that, surely they have good reason,
by barbegal 6y ago
> With DHCPv6, the network operator can force your device to obtain only single IP address.
So if your network admin does that, surely they have good reason, they basically want to stop you using 464xlat. Any good network admin should allow a device to ask for as many IPv6 addresses as it needs. Or is there a reason why that is not possible?
I think IPv6 is quite complicated, people don't fully understand it (it's not the same as IPv4 with a bigger address space) which means lots of conversations like this where it seems easy to just implement IPv6 but the nuances of the protocol mean it isn't. There is also lots of code that is broken because of this same lack of understanding meaning more workarounds to get everything to work.
- vetinari 6y ago> Any good network admin should allow a device to ask for as many IPv6 addresses as it needs. Or is there a reason why that is not possible? Business. You can extract more money from customers (we are talking telcos there, not your local network). IPv6 is in some aspects simpler, as it removes warts that IPv4 has. Many issues with deployment are not because IPv6 is complicated, but different.