IPv6 for home network

[Thor]

Did not want to flood my existing thread so I make a new one

Question: IPv6 for a home network. Is it worth it? (I am going to do it anyway), but just want to know if it there are any upsides to using IPv6, from what I understand it just supports more devices (bigger IP range), so realistically a home network will never fill IPv4 so there is no real reason to go IPv6 for home right?

 

[paul5186]

Did not want to flood my existing thread so I make a new one

Question: IPv6 for a home network. Is it worth it? (I am going to do it anyway), but just want to know if it there are any upsides to using IPv6, from what I understand it just supports more devices (bigger IP range), so realistically a home network will never fill IPv4 so there is no real reason to go IPv6 for home right?

One of the main reasons is to get rid of Nat for your internal network. An Isp can e.g allocate a /48 to your connection and you can subnet off that. But it all depends on your Isp. You can setup a free tunnel to HE to play around with.

 

[Thor]

One of the main reasons is to get rid of Nat for your internal network. An Isp can e.g allocate a /48 to your connection and you can subnet off that. But it all depends on your Isp. You can setup a free tunnel to HE to play around with.

Get rid of NAT, the thing I JUST learned what it is and how it works from the mikrotik thread eish. :crylaugh:

 

[walt chen]

so far not too much sense.

 

[Thor]

One of the main reasons is to get rid of Nat for your internal network. An Isp can e.g allocate a /48 to your connection and you can subnet off that. But it all depends on your Isp. You can setup a free tunnel to HE to play around with.

HE as in Hurricane Electric?

My gosh, then if I understand it correctly setting up a tunnel to them should give me super low latency to US base services?

 

[paul5186]

HE as in Hurricane Electric?

My gosh, then if I understand it correctly setting up a tunnel to them should give me super low latency to US base services?

Yes Hurricane Electric. But the same latency or more over IPV6, light still travels at the same speed. But you can get ipv6 from them if your Isp doesn't do it.

 

[Thor]

Yes Hurricane Electric. But the same latency or more over IPV6, light still travels at the same speed. But you can get ipv6 from them if your Isp doesn't do it.

Ahhh I understand.

 

[Thor]

I'm with WebAfrica, Vox and Afrihost (3 PPPOE) x 2 ADSL lines 1 is a backup account if the account goes bonkers.

I think WA should have ipv6

 

[Thor]

Fck doesnt look like they do - OR I am doing something wrong.

 

[paul5186]

I'm with WebAfrica, Vox and Afrihost (3 PPPOE) x 2 ADSL lines 1 is a backup account if the account goes bonkers.

I think WA should have ipv6

If it's over adsl/vdsl then nope, openserve doesn't allow for it

 

[Thor]

If it's over adsl/vdsl then nope, openserve doesn't allow for it

That sucks, what are my options?

 

[paul5186]

That sucks, what are my options?

To use the free ipv6 tunnel from HE, so it's not native ipv6 but at least you can play around with it.

 

[Thor]

To use the free ipv6 tunnel from HE, so it's not native ipv6 but at least you can play around with it.

Alright, I will go that route. NAT remains in play going the HE route correct?

 

[Mr Scratch]

Thor, what exactly do you want to achieve? I think knowing that, we can actually advise you towards achieving that instead of spitballing

If you’re just down to experiment, then go for it.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Alright, I will go that route. NAT remains in play going the HE route correct?

Yes, the tunnel just directs traffic from IPv6 networks to your single IPv4 address.

Look at GRE tunnels if you want to augment having multiple IPv4 addresses.

 

[Thor]

Thor, what exactly do you want to achieve? I think knowing that, we can actually advise you towards achieving that instead of spitballing

If you’re just down to experiment, then go for it.

Nothing other than exploring RouterOS anything it can do I want to do I'll figure out a purpose later.

 

[Genisys]

Alright, I will go that route. NAT remains in play going the HE route correct?

No, with HE.net you get a routed /64 or /48. Means Nat isn't required anymore.

 

[Genisys]

Nothing other than exploring RouterOS anything it can do I want to do I'll figure out a purpose later.

Be careful, you need specific rules in place on the firewall to block incomming traffic.

 

[Thor]

Be careful, you need specific rules in place on the firewall to block incomming traffic.

For safety until I understand I added a template firewall from Mikrotik's website.

Issue now is
I need to do to fix this:

ZEC: Stratum - Cannot connect to eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3443
ZEC: Stratum - Failed to connect, retry in 20 sec...