Does your ISP support IPv6?

@toroidalcore in Germany I had proper dualstack too, for many years on different ISPs - was quite shocked that the Nordics are so behind, specifically Finland for me now

@littlefox Don't the nordics tend to have fast last mile connections too? As in, you can get like 10 Gbit if you want?

@toroidalcore in this apartment we only get symmetric gigabit, but some places have 10G, yea

@toroidalcore just Ethernet coming to the utility panel, plug in and DHCP to get your address (and 6rd details)

oh and up to 5 public IPv4 addresses per customer apparently x)

@toroidalcore My modem was damaged by lightning and my ISP replaced it. With the new modem, I got IPv6 connectivity. However I couldn't make connections from outside, adding IPv4 port forwards or IPv6 firewall exceptions to the modem config didn't do anything.

A week later, IPv6 connectivity disappeared. And now IPv4 port forwarding works.

@toroidalcore the ISP with fiber to my house? no. the ISP I started to provide IPv6 to myself? yes.

@littlefox I definitely envy that, especially the extra public IPS, although I don't know what I do with more than gigabit.

I have an order in with a fiber ISP that's finally building out to my area, planning on getting the 500 mb symmetrical package. No public IPv4, but at least they give out a /60 prefix for IPv6. Right now with cable I have gigabit down and 40 mb up, a /60, and one public IPv4.

@BestGirlGrace What's your setup, are you tunneling it from somewhere?

@toroidalcore Yeah, I have a Wireguard tunnel from my home to my colo in downtown Seattle that does all the BGP stuff.

@nicolas17 Sounds like it might have been a misconfiguration or something. Like maybe they gave out a new modem, but didn't update the config it's supposed to retrieve.

@BestGirlGrace So you have a whole AS going? That's badass.

@toroidalcore Thank you! It's been a lot of fun.

it's all worth it to open bgp.tools and see your name on there.

@toroidalcore it would have been interesting to have an “I don’t know” answer perhaps.

@toroidalcore naming and shaming. CenturyLink does not.

@toroidalcore yes! they are very confusing to me

@BestGirlGrace I'd like to give it a try someday, but too many other projects at the moment.

@maurice Fair enough. In making the pole I was thinking of people who'd checked if they'd had it or not.

@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town Ehhhh, it's not quite a yes or no for mine.
If you're billed as a residential account, flat out NO. If you're billed as a business account, you can get it if you go out of your way to ask for it.

Fucking pathetic, imo.

@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town The only real saving grace is that I get two public IPv4 addresses, so I can at least run a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel, which I've done.

@theraspb @toroidalcore yes and yes, but it randomly stops working every once in a while until i restart the DHCPv6 client on the router because sometimes the ISP CPE decides to stop routing my static delegated /56 until I create a new DHCPv6 session (renewing the lease doesn't fix it).

Also cursed: if the DHCPv4 server on the CPE is turned off (even though I don't use DHCPv4 since i have a static /32) it'll hand out a delegated prefix but not update the routing table on the CPE so the delegated prefix won't route.

And you can't ask it to delegate the /56. That would be way too logical. You have to make a separate PD request for each /60 in the /56