<div dir="ltr"><div>I've never really liked using tunnels either, as they seem to be a bit of a temporary bandaid-fix. I prefer a dual IPv4/IPv6 stack until IPv4 goes away. I don't really have a good reason beyond the "ick" feeling of adding yet another layer.</div><div><br></div><div>Time Warner Cable provides IPv6 to me, but I haven't used it beyond some testing due to the way they do Prefix Delegation.</div><div><br></div><div>You get one IPv6 address assigned to the physical device that is connected (such as a router), and your equipment needs to do a Prefix Delegation request via DHCPv6 to get your very own /64. That's great, except it seems that TWC will delegate a brand new /64 *every* time. So any power cycles or expiration of the delegated subnet results in a brand new /64. </div><div><br></div><div>You might be seeing something similar with your connection. It would be nice if they handled the Prefix Delegation more like the address leases.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 01/03/2016 01:18 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:<br>
> ARS: "IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment"<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/ipv6-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-by-reaching-10-percent-deployment/1/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/ipv6-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-by-reaching-10-percent-deployment/1/</a><br>
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</span>Thanks. An interesting read, and delightfully brief.<br>
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> There’s some interesting history, technical info, and comparison of IPv4 to IPv6 in the article.<br>
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</span>I hadn't thought about the weakest link problem. "I'm okay since I have<br>
tunnels", but what about some of the sites I need to reach?<br>
<br>
Speaking of tunnels, the resistance to them is surprising. Specifically,<br>
I hear from several friends that they just don't wanna. (Difficult to<br>
persuade people to do something they simply dislike. God gave us all<br>
free will.)<br>
<br>
Speaking not of tunnels, when I got native IPv6 at home (having used the<br>
tunnel before), things were weird. ISP "camps" me on the lone IPv4<br>
lease, but either they or my router insist on changing the IPv6<br>
sub-leases with much higher frequency. The effect is that IPv6 native at<br>
my place is client only, useless for servers.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- R; <><<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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