except for nor using it at all, of course.

So I want to make my homelab IPv6 ready, because I have too much free time, i guess. There are two decisions that I’m currently unsure about:

  1. ULA or not. Do you have local only addresses or do your clients communicate using the global IPv6 address? Does not using ULAs work without a static IP from the ISP?
  2. DHCPv6 or is SLAAC enough?

For each question both options seem to be possible and I’m interested in your experience

Cheers

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    15 hours ago

    I don’t use IPv6 on my lab. They been screaming to the bleachers since like 2010 that IPv6 is right around the corner due to lack of addresses, and I’ve still seen no real reason to want to adopt for it.

    My current provider doesn’t even support it… so why should I?

    • ElectricVocalist@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      29 minutes ago

      I have been ipv6 only for a few years due to my ISP and it made a few ipv4-only people very angry when they couldn’t access my websites

    • Bloefz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      In fact when I was in college taking classes on IPv6 we were told it would be everywhere next year.

      This was 1994. Lol

      Personally I don’t like it because it’s too overengineered for me. They should have added 2 bytes to IPv4 and called it a day. That means we would have had the address space of 65536 internets. Really plenty. IPv6 has too much space.

    • darklamer@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      My current provider doesn’t even support it…

      In what kind of godforsaken backwater do ISPs that don’t support IPv6 still exist!?

      • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Switzerland, we have the best and worst of both worlds. 25GBit Fiber home connections for less than 100 USD per month and ISPs that only support IPv4.

        • Jenseitsjens@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Which fiber provider doesn’t support IPv6? I thought it was only Swisscom mobile and its subsidiary’s which don’t support it (though from what I heard, even that is in testing now)

          • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Small former Gemeinschaftsanntenne in my town and surrounding villages, I don’t wanna dox myself so can’t tell you the name. They probably have anywhere between 10-20k customers only. But afaik they are just one of many IPv4 only ISPs in Switzerland.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Yea that was similar to my response when I figured I would look into it a few years back. No ipv6 and no ip address rotation unless its offline for more than 24h, which makes thing simple