I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms

Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by Asooka on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:56AM (#35043322)

Also I'm not going to expect my ISP to actually give me more than one address, so if I have multiple devices at home, I will need to do NAT. Heck, back in the day they used to set TTL to 1 so the packets weren't routable at all without mangling them via iptables. Maybe that will be harder now than 20 years ago since everything connects online...

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by cassianoleal on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:57PM (#35045872)

ISPs are expected to delegate a /56 or /64 prefix to customers. Some are even delegating /48s. Mine delegates a /56.

That should be enough for all your devices to randomly rotate IPs for a lifetime or a few without any NAT.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by Arnavion on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:23PM (#35047819)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24999906

Shitty ISPs do exist, or at least they existed two years ago.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by cassianoleal on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:58PM (#35049014)

Sure they exist, but should you expect your ISP to be shitty? Sounds like a terrible deal for you.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by JohnFen on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:06PM (#35061208)

In large swaths of the US, you don't have a choice about what ISP you have available. If you happen to have a shitty one (and most aren't great), there's nothing you can really do about it.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by hot_gril on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:06PM (#35158622)

The bad ones won't even give you IPv6 to begin with, haha. Not that I want it anyway.

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