Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:05:23
Message-Id: c87f1102-7237-99ab-28e6-89eafe21ac95@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community by Rich Freeman
1 In europe it's a bit different.
2 My gentoo client runs in dual stack mode so my server does as well.
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4 I have ipv4 and ipv6 enabled and get 2 ip addresses from my ISP.
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6 of course i have 2 firewall rules, iptables and ip6tables. But why not.....
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8 works out of the box.
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12 On 2019-11-27 01:09, Rich Freeman wrote:
13 > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 6:41 PM Ralph Seichter <abbot@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
14 >> My current ISP offers native IPv6 and has been doing so for years.
15 >> While choice varies across different countries, IPv6 availability has
16 >> increased considerably over the last 10 years, which is why SiXXs.net
17 >> has discontinued services[1] mid 2017. Even a small amount of searching
18 >> should turn up a decent ISP in most industrialized countries.
19 >>
20 > Uh, at least in the US most ISPs serve a particular geographic area,
21 > and most areas have 1-2 to choose from. Well, unless you want to pay
22 > to actually run a dedicated line to your house. So either you deal
23 > with the consumer-oriented services available in your area, or you
24 > move to an area that has better options. I can't imagine that most
25 > people would move for IPv6.
26 >
27 > I just hope the local telecoms support IPv6 properly before they go so
28 > far as to start doing carrier-grade NAT...
29 >