IPv6 Roll Out

kyton said:
Whats the benefits moving to IPv6?
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Available IPv4 addresses have nearly run out basically, so more and more ISP's are being forced to use CGNAT and not give you a public ip (Like rain and not being able to port forward)

So basically its more a question of the disadvantage of only running IPv4 going forward.

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We have enabled IPv6 for a number of subnets.

If you are in Gauteng on MFN, Frogfoot, Vuma Aerial, Purple Forest and Balwin you can enable Dynamic IPv6/ DHCPv6 in your router to have IPv6 capabilities. If you are on Octotel in CPT in a few areas you can enable it.

@Luke7777 You should have IPv6 now once enabled in the router.
 
AfriNatic said:
We have enabled IPv6 for a number of subnets.

If you are in Gauteng on MFN, Frogfoot, Vuma Aerial, Purple Forest and Balwin you can enable Dynamic IPv6/ DHCPv6 in your router to have IPv6 capabilities. If you are on Octotel in CPT in a few areas you can enable it.

@Luke7777 You should have IPv6 now once enabled in the router.
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Not sure if I’m doing something wrong. But enabled DHCP for ipv6. Get assigned an IP. Failing ipv6 tests.
 
eosman said:
Not sure if I’m doing something wrong. But enabled DHCP for ipv6. Get assigned an IP. Failing ipv6 tests.
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Not all subnets have been enabled yet. You are likely on one that that has not been enabled yet.
 
AfriNatic said:
We have enabled IPv6 for a number of subnets.

If you are in Gauteng on MFN, Frogfoot, Vuma Aerial, Purple Forest and Balwin you can enable Dynamic IPv6/ DHCPv6 in your router to have IPv6 capabilities. If you are on Octotel in CPT in a few areas you can enable it.

@Luke7777 You should have IPv6 now once enabled in the router.
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Kinda sad that Openserve isn’t supported
 
S.Claus said:
Kinda sad that Openserve isn’t supported
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It is. We are engaging with Openserve to get this going.

Using an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel is just not what we want to do now. It complicates things and increases the chances of things going wrong.

We have been seeing really good things with DHCPv6 and apart from the TP-Link Deco that has a firmware bug with DHCPv6 other devices are really working well.

We seeing quite a bit of streaming traffic from Youtube on IPv6 which is nice.
 
AfriNatic said:
It is. We are engaging with Openserve to get this going.

Using an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel is just not what we want to do now. It complicates things and increases the chances of things going wrong.

We have been seeing really good things with DHCPv6 and apart from the TP-Link Deco that has a firmware bug with DHCPv6 other devices are really working well.

We seeing quite a bit of streaming traffic from Youtube on IPv6 which is nice.
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how will it work on OS?
 
blunt said:
how will it work on OS?
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Enable native IPv6 on router and bam it works (that’s my experience with another ISP anyway). You might need to tweak the DNS settings etc if you wish but normally you just enable it
 
Are there any security issues with IPv6? Obviously with IPv4 your router is assigned a routable external IP address and all your devices sit behind NAT and have private IP addresses so none of your devices are exposed to the internet even if router doesn't have a decent firewall.

My understanding with IPv6 is that every device in your network is given a routeable IPv6 address and is exposed to the internet unless you setup your firewall on your router correctly or each device has got a firewall on it. Is this correct?
 
AfriNatic said:
We have enabled IPv6 for a number of subnets.

If you are in Gauteng on MFN, Frogfoot, Vuma Aerial, Purple Forest and Balwin you can enable Dynamic IPv6/ DHCPv6 in your router to have IPv6 capabilities. If you are on Octotel in CPT in a few areas you can enable it.

@Luke7777 You should have IPv6 now once enabled in the router.
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@AfriNatic Will check when I have some 'quiet' time. Wife will kill me if I disrupt her Teams meeting(s) :) Anything I should be aware of, or is it just a simple switch over ? Any changes on my side ?
 
AfriNatic said:
We have enabled IPv6 for a number of subnets.

If you are in Gauteng on MFN, Frogfoot, Vuma Aerial, Purple Forest and Balwin you can enable Dynamic IPv6/ DHCPv6 in your router to have IPv6 capabilities. If you are on Octotel in CPT in a few areas you can enable it.

@Luke7777 You should have IPv6 now once enabled in the router.
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when will FF CPT be rolled out?
 
Luke7777 said:
@AfriNatic Will check when I have some 'quiet' time. Wife will kill me if I disrupt her Teams meeting(s) :) Anything I should be aware of, or is it just a simple switch over ? Any changes on my side ?
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Yes it's as simple as enabling IPv6. Please do not remove or delete your IPv4 settings just enable IPv6 as Dynamic IPv6/DHCPv6 mode and you should be good to go.
 
AfriNatic said:
Very soon. We have to deploy DNS servers in the region still so have not enabled for other FNOs yet.
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How would it be enabled on the DIR-825? I see the WAN connection just says Dynamic IPv4 - would I add another Dynamic IPv6?
 
blunt said:
How would it be enabled on the DIR-825? I see the WAN connection just says Dynamic IPv4 - would I add another Dynamic IPv6?
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Yes.

Self help is finalising the article on how to enable IPv6.

It's as simple as just adding another connection under WAN setting and adding Dynamic IPv6. When IPv6 is enabled you should see both IPv4 and IPv6 connected and both have internet.

The router will allocate public IPv6 Addresses to all your devices that supports it while also allocating them with a local IPv4 address from the router so the traffic can fall back to that if IPv6 is not supported.
 
AfriNatic said:
Yes.

Self help is finalising the article on how to enable IPv6.

It's as simple as just adding another connection under WAN setting and adding Dynamic IPv6. When IPv6 is enabled you should see both IPv4 and IPv6 connected and both have internet.

The router will allocate public IPv6 Addresses to all your devices that supports it while also allocating them with a local IPv4 address from the router so the traffic can fall back to that if IPv6 is not supported.
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interesting, how exactly does that work if all devices have a public v6 - for something like a port forward?
how many public v6's do we get?
 
blunt said:
interesting, how exactly does that work if all devices have a public v6 - for something like a port forward?
how many public v6's do we get?
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When each device get a public IPv6 ip there is no NAT involved at all. Should be enough for all your devices.
 
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