I’d do that but my LAN doesn’t have more devices than the number of atoms in the earth
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I had to do it cos Australian internet so I got starlink and they use a cgnat.
Eewww CGNAT sucks
But it's public facing, so your devices would join the rest of the devices in the world, which may one day get to a fraction of that percentage!
Congratulations.
I had an old school friend chastise me for the lack of ipv6 in my home.hosted stuff just this week..
I want to, but its effort, I'm not currently feeling any pain only being on ipv4, and since I'm on a static IP presently, I'm not feeling like I would be gaining much out of a switch.
This post however makes me feel super slack though: if dull men are migrating to v6, then maybe that makes me a Luddite / carmudgeon... 😱
I only did it cos I had to. Cgnat etc. It is also far better for routing and improves throughput by reducing congestion. See apalrd video on ipv6 that explains it well.
Ipv6 is about 36% of the internet so us dull men really should start getting with the program. Also each endpoint that supports ipv6 make a disproportionate effect on increasing that number.
I turned it on about 10 years ago and without realising accidentally routed my internal home network. My IDS went nuts, I realised mistake, I rolled the change back, and haven't gotten around to it since.
I think for me, the reliance on DNS makes my anxious... As is, my home net is overly complex (32+ discreet screened VLANS with vlsm, multiple discreet segregated WiFi networks, etc, etc.. (don't ask why, "it's complicated")) and being able to navigate it when DNS breaks is easy.. Remembering ipv6 internal addresses is something I'll likely never be able to do...
I used to be a comms / security engineer so I could justify spending time during the day fixing stuff in my "lab" when it broke. These days, not so much...
So for me it is more "fear of the unknown" and "having time to work through the kinks.."
But with DMC here now pushing me on, perhaps it is time to migrate a pilot network segment and get over myself...
It's a great feeling, isn't it?
A similarly good one is turning off the 2.4GHz wifi.
I've got the 2.5GHz WiFi still enabled cos with band steering I can get a larger range than what 5g supports.
99% of my IoT stuff runs 2.4GHz only (except the Zigbee and ZWave stuff) so looks like I'll still need it for years to come.
Yep. Went there when I redesigned the VPN thing where I put all the things in that aren't around here but either in other locations or move around. All v6 only in there plus routing into it from the connected networks, where appropriate. No more IP conflicts with local networks and very clean segmentation.
Feels good, doesn't it.
What’s the point? Is it for public or local stuff? I have both but only ipv4
Well I would like to access my services from across the internet. I'm on star link cos regular Aussie internet is fucked. Starlink uses cgnat so nonpublic ipv4 hence I am forced to use ipv6.
And here i am super happy about 2 days ago redoing my entire home network... on ipv4 still. Had Orbi for about 8 years now, and it's getting outdated. My job is actually in networking, and we recently were throwing away tons of equipment, so I was able to grab brand new Cisco unmanaged 24 port business switch and a fortigate firewall that's way overkill for me. Configured the firewall with new networks and separated the orbi onto its own interface so it's basically just dedicated to wifi now and everything else on the new Cisco switch including my synology which I was finally able to use all 4 NIC ports bonded without my orbi struggling. I definitely notice a difference, and it's amazing. The biggest gain has been my ability to stream my 4k movies now without stutter. One day I'll attempt ipv6...
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