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The only practical reason you'd want to use ipv6 at home is if you want to expose multiple devices on your LAN to incoming TCP/UDP connections from the Internet
by hot_gril 3y ago
The only practical reason you'd want to use ipv6 at home is if you want to expose multiple devices on your LAN to incoming TCP/UDP connections from the Internet without doing port mapping, since your ISP likely gives you a whole ipv6 block instead of just one address like with v4.
- neilalexander 3y agoThe real practical reason, everything else aside, is that you’ll need IPv6 connectivity to reach IPv6 services as the world continues to adopt and transition over to IPv6.
- hot_gril 3y agoSo far I haven't encountered any ipv6-only services. It may happen some day, then again there might be some bridge to v4 anyway.
- gargalatas 3y agoCGNAT is also a thing lately..
- hot_gril 3y agoRight, some home ISPs that don't give a public v4 might give you a public v6 without a firewall. Cellular ISPs will probably have CGNAT even on ipv6, for example my AT&T is like that.