India is almost 80% IPv6

Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by fulafel on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:22AM (#32798148)

Nice.

Can anyone from India comment? I imagine a lot of this is mobile, what is the v6 like on fixed broadband?

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by programmer_dude on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:25AM (#32798156)

All fiber to the home service providers here (Jio, Tataplay fiber, Airtel etc) support IPv6 "out of the box".

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by miohtama on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:35AM (#32798216)

What's the historical reason for good IPv6 support in India? They never managed to participate IPv4 address land grab?

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by jiggawatts on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:48AM (#32798276)

In a word: yes. They have less than one address per one hundred people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_ad...

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by maven29 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:29AM (#32798184)

Even the state-run broadband ISP goes as far as to offer DHCP prefix delegation: You can get a globally routable address for all your devices.

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:55AM (#32798314)

Meanwhile, here in an exurb in the same country that the Internet was created in, my only real broadband option is DOCSIS3.1 gigabit with Wave/Astound... which sounds nice, except it's still very-much IPv4-only with zero signs of IPv6 rollout - including confirmation from a customer service rep from about 2-3 weeks ago that there's still no plans to deploy IPv6.

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by pantalaimon on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:20AM (#32799023)

Seems to be common with German DSL providers too. It’s just on mobile that you only get a /64

But maybe variable SLAAC will be the solution here

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mishra-6man-variable-...

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by xfer on Sunday September 11, 2022 @02:25PM (#32801998)

The ipv6 routing on major ISP(Jio) that started popularizing it is pretty bad, half of the packets go to singapore and back to india. You often need to explicitly use v4 to get better latency.

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by rraghur on Sunday September 11, 2022 @06:33AM (#32798479)

My ISP hands out ipv6, but with no real support. Prefix delegation does not work and tech support is clueless...

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by sekh60 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:36AM (#32799134)

My ISP in Ontario, Canada, has full ipv6 sorry for their cable customers, but tech support is clueless about it still. I had issues with ipv4 connectivity once and they struggled to understand that ipv6 was working perfectly and it was strictly v4 not working at all

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by akshayt on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:46AM (#32798269)

My mobile service provider Jio does have IPv6 but my brodband service provider Hathway does not have IPv6.

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by SanjayMehta on Sunday September 11, 2022 @06:37AM (#32798490)

Seamless. I have multiple fibre and mobile connections.

https://whatismyipaddress.com/ reports an ipv6 and ipv4 address for each connection.

I had to do nothing on my routers, it just started working a few months ago.

Edit:fixed bad URL

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by noisy_boy on Sunday September 11, 2022 @07:25AM (#32798722)

edit: already fixed by parent

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Re:India is almost 80% IPv6 by SanjayMehta on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:08AM (#32798938)

Thanks for pointing out the lazy typo. Have edited my post.

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