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Increased number of available IP addresses, improved security features, simplified network management, reduced network complexity, and support for new technolog

Increased number of available IP addresses, improved security features, simplified network management, reduced network complexity, and support for new technologies. The adoption of IPv6 will lead to cost savings, improved network performance, and increased scalability. Scalability may not matter in the typical home network, but in an enterprise environment, the cost of up-keeping the network backbone is significant.

everdrive 4y ago
>simplified network management I keep hearing this, but it doesn’t seem more simple to me. My ISP won’t reserve me a /48, so I can’t control the management ips of devices on my network. The solution is apparently to set up dynamic dns, which I have no interest in doing.
- screamingninja 4y ago
  Just split that /64 into smaller /80 subnets. If I were your ISP, I would be upset too. The apparent issue here is that you're falling back to what's familiar- static IP addressing. How about mDNS?
  - jlokier 4y ago
    You can't use a smaller subnet than /64 for devices that use SLAAC for address allocation. (Unless you're putting them behind an IPv6 NAT, so thry can have their oen private /64).
    - CaliforniaKarl 4y ago
      Or setting up things like stateful DHCPv6: https://serverfault.com/a/714923 https://serverfault.com/a/714923 It's not great, but it's an option!
  - everdrive 4y ago
    I guess what I meant is that my ISP won’t hand out a stable IPv6 allocation. Ie, my entire address range changes weekly.
speedgoose 4y ago
But that's in a world where IPv4 doesn't exist. But it does, so I see an increased number of available IP addresses that many people can't access, so you must keep an IPv4 stack which makes everything more complex and more expensive. I understand the support of new technologies but IPv6 is 27 years old.
drtgh 4y ago
Making your computer traceable on the internet is not a security feature but all the contrary, it is a threat to security and privacy. Cracking and Hacking world is awaiting with open arms IPv6 because a pain in the ass called NAT was removed from the specification, and only a tinny exploitable fence was left for Router's future. Now the enterprise environment will have their needed paid additional security devices with their scalability while the average user at home have to cross fingers for not being the target of a zero day. Tracking Advertisers are also very happy. Its sad to hear about the supposed reduced network complexity when its needed even an external DNS service for being able to manage your own network at home, lets say your NAS with audiovisual content as mere example, what forces one to create additional secondary real local networks if one don't what to rely in external DNS services for to being able to know the IP of your own device.

everdrive 4y ago

>simplified network management I keep hearing this, but it doesn’t seem more simple to me. My ISP won’t reserve me a /48, so I can’t control the management ips of devices on my network. The solution is apparently to set up dynamic dns, which I have no interest in doing.

screamingninja 4y ago
Just split that /64 into smaller /80 subnets. If I were your ISP, I would be upset too. The apparent issue here is that you're falling back to what's familiar- static IP addressing. How about mDNS?
- jlokier 4y ago
  You can't use a smaller subnet than /64 for devices that use SLAAC for address allocation. (Unless you're putting them behind an IPv6 NAT, so thry can have their oen private /64).
  - CaliforniaKarl 4y ago
    Or setting up things like stateful DHCPv6: https://serverfault.com/a/714923 https://serverfault.com/a/714923 It's not great, but it's an option!
- everdrive 4y ago
  I guess what I meant is that my ISP won’t hand out a stable IPv6 allocation. Ie, my entire address range changes weekly.

speedgoose 4y ago

But that's in a world where IPv4 doesn't exist. But it does, so I see an increased number of available IP addresses that many people can't access, so you must keep an IPv4 stack which makes everything more complex and more expensive. I understand the support of new technologies but IPv6 is 27 years old.

drtgh 4y ago

Making your computer traceable on the internet is not a security feature but all the contrary, it is a threat to security and privacy. Cracking and Hacking world is awaiting with open arms IPv6 because a pain in the ass called NAT was removed from the specification, and only a tinny exploitable fence was left for Router's future. Now the enterprise environment will have their needed paid additional security devices with their scalability while the average user at home have to cross fingers for not being the target of a zero day. Tracking Advertisers are also very happy. Its sad to hear about the supposed reduced network complexity when its needed even an external DNS service for being able to manage your own network at home, lets say your NAS with audiovisual content as mere example, what forces one to create additional secondary real local networks if one don't what to rely in external DNS services for to being able to know the IP of your own device.