Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by babypuncher on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:16PM
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All the big cable and fiber internet providers I've worked with in the US support IPv6, even evil nasty ones like Comcast have supported it for a decade now.
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by rekoil on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:21PM
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Is it enabled by default on customer equipment?
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by FateOfNations on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:44PM
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On their leased hardware, it is enabled from what I've seen. And if you are running your own modem and router, you will get IPv6 if you configure your setup to request it (via DHCP). They will even give you a /60 if your DHCP client asks for it.
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by keiyakins on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:50PM
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Even? /60 should be the minimum, even home users usually have a couple subnets (guest networks for example, sometimes one for the router's WAN link) and you want the boundary to be on a nybble boundary
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by rekoil on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:03PM
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A /60 network consists of 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 addresses. I think most users will probably be fine with that.
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by Dagger2 on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:21PM
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This is v6; nobody counts individual IPs, because the answer is always "enough".
A /60 is only 16 /64s (i.e. 16 subnets), and that's not always enough.
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by keiyakins on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:25PM
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Yeah, it's not always, but for most home networks it probably is. Ideally they'd give you a /56 or even a /48, but giving those on request and a /60 by default is fine.
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by rekoil on Saturday December 10, 2022 @09:34AM
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Wait, can you not subnet IPv6 smaller than /64?
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by keiyakins on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:44AM
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Not if you want SLAAC to work, no.