IPV6 Stickies

[Toby]

I would like to propose that 2 Sticky threads that reflect the state of adoption by ISP's and Hosting Companies within South Africa.

For me, this will in a small way pressure some of the providers to speed up their IPV6 Readiness.
The stickies would also contribute to the decision making process when a forumn user is determining which providers to Use.

I suggest "IPV6 Readiness" Stickies in the following subforums

Networking and Security
Hosting and Cloud Computing

 

[syntax]

ipv6 is in a catch 22. Everyone is waiting for everyone else to do it.
I know a lot of ISP's are running IPv6, but the overall industry adoption of this is slow.

What purpose do you have for wanting IPv6 ?

 

[Toby]

ipv6 is in a catch 22. Everyone is waiting for everyone else to do it.
I know a lot of ISP's are running IPv6, but the overall industry adoption of this is slow.

What purpose do you have for wanting IPv6 ?

And that is the crux of the problem. For me the Mybb Community should be advocating the adoption of IPV6,
My understanding is that the ADSL Network does not support it, I would like to be able to connect natively to the internet through IPV6 on ADSL. I realise that we would need to use IPV4/IPV6 proxies etc

Reason for wanting to go IPV6

• Do away with the need for NAT
• Be able to access international WebSite's that support IPV6 through the IPV6 protocol.
• Be able to access my home devices from outside on the Internet without having to worry about Services like DynDNS

Just some of the Reasons

 

[RoganDawes]

Last IPv6 day, I set up a 6to4 tunnel on my openwrt router, using the anycast address (192.88.99.1), which worked for a while until I had to rebuild my router, and I neglected to set it up again. I tried again recently, and found that there is now no route to that address any more. I *think* it was on Uninet previously, but now it just dies when tracerouting to it.

That said, I've just tried to bring up a 6to4 network using that address, and while I was able to get a pseudo IPv6 address that matches my IPv4 address, I was unable to actually reach anything on the IPv6 network. Pity!

 

[Thor]

• Be able to access my home devices from outside on the Internet without having to worry about Services like DynDNS

Just some of the Reasons

I did not know this.

Ill have to learn about ipv6

 

[RoganDawes]

I did not know this.

Ill have to learn about ipv6

I'm not sure that being able to access your home devices without a service such as DynDNS is actually an attribute of IPv6. You get an IPv6 address assigned to you by your ISP, much as you get an IPv4 address today. Figuring out what that address actually is, when you are not on that network, is what services such as DynDNS offer. IPv6 will have the same problems, unless ISP's start offering static addresses for specific logins.

What it CAN allow is direct access to devices inside your network, without having to make port forwarding rules for every device. This may or may not be seen as a benefit!

 

[Thor]

I'm not sure that being able to access your home devices without a service such as DynDNS is actually an attribute of IPv6. You get an IPv6 address assigned to you by your ISP, much as you get an IPv4 address today. Figuring out what that address actually is, when you are not on that network, is what services such as DynDNS offer. IPv6 will have the same problems, unless ISP's start offering static addresses for specific logins.

What it CAN allow is direct access to devices inside your network, without having to make port forwarding rules for every device. This may or may not be seen as a benefit!

Makes a lot more sense, because that's how I Currently have it