Re: Re: Just how big is IPv6?
  By: Arelor to Deon George on Sat Jan 04 2025 09:40 am

Howdy,

 > And, to me, that is a big part of the point: if you depend on your ISP's
 > DHCPv6 to properly configure your LAN the whole thing is a bit brittle.

I dont think that is a fair comparison.

I have both a IP4 net and and IP6 net - which if I was concerned things would
break when the ISP messes up, goes down or something else, then I define those
nets and routing on my side (which I do). My link can go offline (and sometimes
does), and my IP6 network is fine, as is my IP4 net. This is how it was done on
the IP4 setup (which the assigned net wasnt provided by an upstream DHCP
server), and can still be done with IP6.

If I dont need/care about the addresses, then I can leave the router to give me
something and let it change at will as defined by the upstream configuration
(which in this case is the ISP). Ala dynamic ip6, which I know some ISPs provide
to clients.

Anyway, I dont think anybody dependant on systems being "available" regardless
of the status of an internet link, to leave the network config to an unknown 3rd
party. You should expect problems if that was the case.


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