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Why, is IPv6 activation manual in FreeBSD?
by ale42 10mo ago
Why, is IPv6 activation manual in FreeBSD?
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 10mo agoIt's enabled by default, I was mostly talking about being in a lan with active ipv6, imo that's not that common.
- shakna 10mo agoThat's pretty standard where I am. Every Telstra router comes with IPv6 enabled.
- immibis 10mo agoAs it should be. If your ISP isn't giving you ipv6, they're not giving you internet access and you should sue for your money back.
- zokier 10mo agoWith such confidence in your comment, I'm sure you can point out many successful precedents for such cases.
- immibis 10mo agoThere's a federal mandate to implement IPv6 by... the end of this year. So in about 2-3 weeks.
- zokier 10mo agoAre you referring to the OMB IPv6 mandate? That only relates to federal networks, and even there its requiring only 80% adoption. It has zero relevance to normal commercial/private networks
- shakna 10mo agoI assume they were referencing ISM-0518. Which mandates all ISPs _in Australia_ to have IPv6 before January 1st, 2026.
- majorchord 10mo agoFor private ISPs? No, there isn't... please provide evidence for this.
- ale42 10mo agoIMHO you do not need "active" IPv6. Most LANs (unless you have some switch-level filtering that blocks router advertisements from "unauthorized" nodes) can transport such IPv6 packets. Then it just takes being connected to the LAN and being able to send an arbitrary ICMP6 packet (which probably means being root on the attacker machine, not a very high barrier I'd say).
- champtar 10mo agoYou need working switch level filtering, many implementations can be bypassed / will never be fixed: https://blog.champtar.fr/VLAN0_LLC_SNAP/ https://blog.champtar.fr/VLAN0_LLC_SNAP/
- BSDobelix 10mo agoNo, you can choose if you want IPv4 or IPv6 or both, at installation time also if you want it in "autoconf-mode"