[olug] I seem to have an Omaha Cox Residential IPV6 address

Aric Aasgaard aric at omahax.com
Fri Mar 18 02:42:29 CDT 2016


Well it didn't take me too long to get an IPv6 home network set up with a
DHCP /56 allotment tonight.
....now I need to figure out how to dynamically DNS it all up because um I
have no clue how to get to all my stuff if all my stuff gets an address
change.  
I'm guessing I can locally statically assign the /56 side of the address if
they are going to give me 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IP addresses to use
every time.

My LAN and WAN addresses only have this part in common 2600:8804 of the
2600:8804::/34  ....but my LAN is getting assigned the consistent /56 I
requested.  
......I am excited about being a n00b again.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Lou
Duchez
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:00 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] I seem to have an Omaha Cox Residential IPV6 address

Cool!  Um, I think it's cool anyway.

I'm still pretty peevish at IPv6 for not supporting NAT.  The address of my
printer should not depend on which carrier I'm using.

Used to be I had two different Internet connections at work, and I was able
to set up one as the primary and one as the failover. Worked like a dream
... but it would not be possible under IPv6.


> Maybe I am late to the party but I just noticed my pfSense box is 
> getting assigned an IPv6 WAN address via DHCP.
> I can ping ipv6.l.google.com with it natively.
>
>   
>
> PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) <redacted ipv6 address> --> 
> 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e
>
> 16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e, icmp_seq=0 hlim=57 time=28.695 
> ms
>
> 16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e, icmp_seq=1 hlim=57 time=25.456 
> ms
>
> 16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e, icmp_seq=2 hlim=57 time=26.253 
> ms
>
>   
>
> --- ipv6.l.google.com ping6 statistics ---
>
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
>
> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 25.456/26.801/28.695/1.378 ms
>
>   
>
> I need to start learning all of the IPv6 wizardry very soon.
>
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