Does your ISP support IPv6?

@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

@azonenberg

Any chance of using your own CPE?

@theraspb

@toroidalcore @theraspb i wish, not on comcast business

@azonenberg

Oof. That's an option on Spectrum, though I haven't bothered with it.

Have that gotten high-split for you yet? Spectrum's planning on it supposedly, and they plan to offer 1 gig symmetrical.

@theraspb

@maddy I'm honestly surprised when I hear about people getting more than one public IPv4 address without asking for it, or getting business class. It feels like getting a public IPv4 at all is rare unless you're on a bigger ISP who had a bunch of them already.

@toroidalcore @theraspb I'm told that some upgrades on the docsis side are coming, which will enable 1G symmetric (I'm on 500 down / 35 up IIRC at the moment).

They've been saying that for something like the past two or three years. I'm not holding my breath.

But last time I quoted for fiber they would have had to directional-drill the entire length of my street at an estimated cost of around $80K. So that's not an option yet.

There's new apartments being built the next street over though, fingers crossed they run a fiber to that building and maybe I can get an install for <$50K at some point

@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town In my case, I'm with a local-ish ISP who bought up a massive block of IPv4 early on, and has used that to their benefit, avoiding furthering IPv6 adoption as long as they can help it. >.>

But at least everyone gets a public IPv4 or two - none of their wired residential customers have to deal with CGNAT.

@azonenberg

Spectrum's been talking about the upgrade for years, supposedly it's coming in the summer to my area, but per Reddit people are getting it, so that's something.

That said, there's a local(ish, same state) company building out fiber who's finally starting to build out in my neighborhood and is taking orders. I'm planning on switching, even though they do IPv4 CGNAT. I get a /60 for v6 at least.

@theraspb

@maddy Good on them for grabbing enough IPv4 and avoiding CGNAT. Not that I want to cheer for CGNAT, but it is a shame they can't push ahead with v6.

(Then again I don't know their infrastructure, so who knows.)

@toroidalcore Depends on the ISP

@linkachus17 Do you have more than one?

@toroidalcore Used to be. But the one am currently using has IPv6. While the other doesn't

@toroidalcore I get a /48 and I use different /64's for different parts of my network

@toroidalcore Yes, but not by default or publicly advertised. We asked in the shop and got IPv6 enabled for us. Apparently for them it's available on an experimental request basis.

@toroidalcore yes and they charge extra for it, *and* only on "business lines". Fuckers.

@viccie30 Nice, I only get a /60, but it's better than nothing. I've heard of some ISPs only giving out one /64.

@AliciaBytes Not great, but not terrible.

@dch That's too bad, I guess they consider it an 'enterprise' feature so it's gotta cost more...