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I am an IPv6 maxi (and I love to see this, it’s great), but even I had to chuckle at this line: > or ask your ISP to enable IPv6 on your network Try pulling t
by jagger27 4y ago
I am an IPv6 maxi (and I love to see this, it’s great), but even I had to chuckle at this line:
> or ask your ISP to enable IPv6 on your network
Try pulling that with Bell Canada. It’s not coming and they don’t care.
(For context, I am behind @BellNoIPv6 on twitter)
- dsr_ 4y agoI asked RCN for IPv6 every year or two since 2010 at dslreports. They've changed their name to Astound, since then. It may be Astounding, but they still have no IPv6. It's OK. I've decided that even when my house has IPv6 native, the Hurricane Electric tunnel is still quite useful to me. Static addresses are always nicer than dynamic.
- jagger27 4y agoI understand the sentiment, but I won’t accept the latency penalty. ISPs shouldn’t be doing dynamic prefix assignments anyway because it breaks too much.
- toast0 4y agoDepending on lots of things, it's easily possible that IPv6 via a he.net tunnel gets you better routing than via your carrier directly. I haven't tested, but my current ISP is stingy at peering, and HE.net is well connected on ipv6. They've got a tunnel endpoint at the large internet exchange in the big city near me and my ISP runs all of my traffic through there anyway. Of course, my ISP doesn't run native IPv6, so 6rd vs a configured tunnel is the same overhead; if there were native v6, you do save 20? bytes per packet, which can be significant.