Re:IPv6 Excuse Bingo
by oldandboring on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:07PM
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> You being a techie probably configured your home network manually to some degree? It's likely your device(s) are now operating in a semi-manual mode where they don't pick up IPv6 provisioning from the ISP. Sadly, knowing and doing more results in less functionality.
It's a 3rd party wifi router I bought on Amazon or Best Buy or whatever like millions of other people have. It's sitting in front of the ISP's modem which is in bridging mode. So many people have this configuration (or they're doing double-nat, no bridge) and have never configured anything manually.
Yes — the misunderstanding is that in most cases the CPE is either fully managed by the ISP, or gets sufficient provisioning information to know whether to enable IPv6. For home networks, in most cases if the ISP enables IPv6, it simply works out of the box.
> from my home network and found, again, that IPv6 wasn't enabled.
> I, a techie
You being a techie probably configured your home network manually to some degree? It's likely your device(s) are now operating in a semi-manual mode where they don't pick up IPv6 provisioning from the ISP. Sadly, knowing and doing more results in less functionality.
> local office router/gateway; it's about 10 years old
OTOH this is in fact the main blocker to IPv6 adoption: small to medium company networks. Both outdated equipment as well as insufficient management lead to IPv6 being close to non-existent there. It costs employee/consultant/service time and/or new hardware. It's a sad state but I don't know what to do about that…