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Exactly. Spectrum delivers good IPv6 service in my area. I tried it when I upgraded my gateway. All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs, hostnames are replace
by Spooky23 10mo ago
Exactly. Spectrum delivers good IPv6 service in my area. I tried it when I upgraded my gateway. All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs, hostnames are replaced by auto assigned stuff from the ISP, and lots of random things don’t work.
I went from being pumped to learn more to realizing I’m going to invest a lot of time and I could not identify and tangible benefit.
- tjohns 10mo agoThe biggest tangible benefit is you don't need to worry about NAT port mapping any more. Every device can have a public address, and you can have multiple servers exposing services on the same port without a conflict. (The flip side is having a network-level firewall is more important than ever.) You also don't have to worry about running a DHCP server anymore, at least on small networks. The simplicity of SLAAC is a breath of fresh air, and removes DHCP as a single point of failure for a network.
- whatevaa 10mo agoFew people care about exposing a server in the first place, even fewer care about multiple servers on a single port.
- alt227 10mo agoSo the benefit is that you dont need to worry about NAT for a couple of port forwarded services you may use (which might well even use UPnP for auto setup), but the tradeoff is you now need to think about full individual firewall protection for every device on your network? I'll take full security by default and forward a couple of ports thankyou!
- viraptor 10mo ago> All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs Loopback, link local and network assigned. What's that problem? Your ipv4 hosts are can reach themselves through millions of addresses already. > hostnames are replaced by auto assigned stuff from the ISP Hostnames replaced? IPv6 doesn't do DNS... > lots of random things don’t work. Lots of random things also don't work on ipv4. :)