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Yeah, but asking film/tv producers for permission would kill my content collection!

Actually how is your ISP giving out IPs to you? Mine uses IPv6 PD to give me a /48. And I then use SLAAC locally on the first /64 prefix on my LAN. Plus another /64 for VPN connections.

If you mean receiving RA/ND packets from your ISP (which are used to announce IPv6 prefixes) then you need to allow icmpv6 packets (if you don’t want to be able to be pinged, just block echo requests, ICMP in v4 and v6 carry important messages otherwise).

If your ISP uses DHCPv6 Prefix delegation you will need to allow packets to UDP port 546 and run a DHCPv6 client capable of handling PD messages.

If you have a fixed prefix, then you probably don’t need to use your ISPs SLAAC at all. You could just put your router on a fixed IP as <yourprefix>::1 and then have your router create RA/ND packets (radvd package in linux, not sure what it would be on pfsense) and assign IPs within your network that way.

If you have a dynamic prefix… It’s a problem I guess. But probably someone has done it and a google search will turn up how they handled it.

EDIT: Just clarified that the RA/ND packets advertise prefixes, not assign addresses.

I believe the privacy concerns are made moot if all consumer level routers by default blocked incoming untracked connections and you need to poke holes in the firewall for the ports you need.

Having said that, even knowing the prefix it’s a huge address space to port scan through. So it’s pretty secure too with privacy extensions enabled.

But for sure the onus is on the router makers for now.

I used HE for ages until my isp gave native ipv6. I also used sixxs back then too. Both provided good connectivity for the few sites that were around using it at the time.

This is my biggest bugbear about a lot of UK isps. They are dynamically allocating ipv6 prefixes for absolutely no good reason.

I’ve only ever done ipv6 using Linux directly as a firewall or a mikrotik router. So cannot help with pfsense I’m afraid.

You start by adding ipv6 and serving both. One side needs to move first. Content providers or isps.

The big tech companies are using ipv6. In the UK the isps are mostly offering it too.

Host both and help us move towards dropping Ipv4 some day. It’s not going to happen in a day.

“Fresher”

When I was at school we had rulers that had both inches and centimetres on. 1-12" and 1-30cm. Now they didn’t perfectly line up. But as a good rule of thumb, 6" = 15cm and 12" = 30cm.

Death panels are fine, provided the reason is pure profit. Apparently.

Windows is a strange game. It seems the only winning move is not to play.

The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it’s actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.

In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.

So, really not sure why it’s so slow going elsewhere. There’s really no reason for it now in 2025.

Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.

I never heard that. But it seems entirely believable.

Pretty sure one of the first things musk did was kill off an entire (or more than one?) data centre. Pointing out with glee that it worked fine without it.

This is probably why it existed.

Still it’s only twitter. No real loss.

I did defederate from hexbear for a while a year or so ago. Just because at the time their users were generally just actively trolling for reactions in pretty much every community, and it just got too the point I defederated. I’ve since removed them from the defed list.

Generally I agree. But ML seems to have become a bit more clearly biased in their moderation. To me it’s not a reason to defed, but a reason to view the content they do allow in their hosted communities with that bias in mind.

I know the OP is using wifi calling as a solution. But since we’re talking voip providers.

I use voxbeam. But they’re wholesale, you need a fixed IP for incoming calls, their support are good. But they’re probably not going to want to help you with end-user type questions. They only support SIP. But, pricing is generally good and plenty of reasonably priced DID options.

That’s unusual. In the UK it’s generally only going to work if you’re in the UK. When I connect to my VPN (in my house, so residential IP), it’s hit and miss, the wifi calling icon will appear and disappear as it feels like. But otherwise it’s generally locked down.

Well, mainly you just need to keep the EFI entirely separate. That’s generally all you need. That’s what windows will decide to wipe and reinstall. I just didn’t do it this time. I think because of how disks were already partitioned.

Exactly.

My main concern when someone asks me that, is how many minutes it will really be.