You’re already doing great if you just don’t disable IPv6. Bonus points if your ISP and your router supports proper dual stack IPv4 + v6, then you can actually connect to the internet using v6! Also, fun fact: the original Nintendo Switch does not support IPv6 at all. Pretty much all other non-ancient consumer stuff should be fine. Check your clients IP address assignments, maybe you’re already using IPv6.
Meh, it doesn’t really offer anything for a home network.
And this is why it really hasn’t be adopted even by business - there’s already a network in place that works. Migrating to 6 doesn’t offer any meaningful benefit to balance the effort and risk of the change.
Now if you’re an SMB with 3 servers and a handful of computers, would you spend what little IT money you have making this change?
And if you’re an enterprise with a thousand servers and tens of thousands of users, are you making this change?
Imagine the cost of reconfiguring routers, and the outages you’d experience doing this.
There’s just no pressing urgency to change, and LOTS of cost and risk to do so.
I guess the advantage of IPv6 would be to get rid of NATs.
If we just keep the same architecture and switch to IPv6 while retaining NATs, then I really see no advantage in switching. It would just be a pain in the ass.
Does anyone have some kind of beginner’s guide to transition a home network from v4 to v6? Everything I found is way too technical.
Asking here but feel free to direct me to a more appropriate sub
You’re already doing great if you just don’t disable IPv6. Bonus points if your ISP and your router supports proper dual stack IPv4 + v6, then you can actually connect to the internet using v6! Also, fun fact: the original Nintendo Switch does not support IPv6 at all. Pretty much all other non-ancient consumer stuff should be fine. Check your clients IP address assignments, maybe you’re already using IPv6.
Meh, it doesn’t really offer anything for a home network.
And this is why it really hasn’t be adopted even by business - there’s already a network in place that works. Migrating to 6 doesn’t offer any meaningful benefit to balance the effort and risk of the change.
Now if you’re an SMB with 3 servers and a handful of computers, would you spend what little IT money you have making this change?
And if you’re an enterprise with a thousand servers and tens of thousands of users, are you making this change?
Imagine the cost of reconfiguring routers, and the outages you’d experience doing this.
There’s just no pressing urgency to change, and LOTS of cost and risk to do so.
I guess the advantage of IPv6 would be to get rid of NATs. If we just keep the same architecture and switch to IPv6 while retaining NATs, then I really see no advantage in switching. It would just be a pain in the ass.
And if you’re in a larger company, you’re the guy or team that gets blamed for every. goddamn. network. problem. that happens after the transition.
Fuck that.