[clue] Comcast IPv6?

[Robert L. Harris]

   I like being able to access some hosts directly with out having to
forward through my NAT, buy more IP's from comcast, and sometimes its fun
to mess with some people.




On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:30 PM Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I'm going to go ahead and feign ignorance. oh, who am I kidding, I am
> ignorant.  Is there any real practical benefit to running ipv6 at home?
>  Speed, DNS?   I'm trying to unpack the idea in my head and it just keeps
> landing in the "why bother" bucket.   Perhaps just for education's sake?
> Get a little practice running it?  Is there some sort of security benefit
> I'm not familiar with?
>
> Mike B
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Mike Shoup <mike at shouptech.com> wrote:
>
>> I was using Comcast's IPv6 for about a couple of months. I have an
>> Ubiquiti EdgeRouter plugged into a plain Motorola modem. The prefix
>> delegation would change about once a week, which is completely different
>> from my IPv4 address which hasn't changed since I signed up (even though
>> it's not supposed to be static).
>>
>> I ran into some bugs on the EdgeRouter that would make IPv6 completely
>> unavailable when the prefix delgation changed, so I stopped using IPv6
>> about a year ago. I haven't tried it since.
>>
>> I didn't have to do any extra config on the clients. Linux, Windows,
>> Android, and even my Roku, all picked up IPv6 addresses and just worked.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Robert L. Harris <
>> robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>    Anyone residential running IPv6 off comcast yet?  Do they change
>>> prefix delegations often?  I'm still happily on my SIXXS tunnel but wanted
>>> to look at a native tunnel.  Unless comcast is going to change it up every
>>> few months ( weeks? ).   Looking for feedback from someone with current exp
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
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