IPv6 Ignorance

Seth Mos seth.mos at dds.nl
Tue Sep 18 12:49:57 CEST 2012


Op 18-9-2012 12:12, Florian Lohoff schreef:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:18:36AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> 2012/9/18 Jeroen Massar<jeroen at unfix.org>:
>>> I am still wondering why native or ISP-provided-IPv6 is so important.
>>
>> Because it's on by default?
>
> Is there some ISP serving IPv6 by default? I mean including the
> residential customer LAN/WLAN?

Xs4all in the Netherlands is enabling it per default on with their new 
customers since about IPv6 day 2012 or so.

They ship a AVM Fritz!Box to their customers.

> We have it enabled by default on the BRAS e.g. RA + DHCP-PD but we
> are hesitating to send out the CPE with IPv6 enabled by default.

Why?

The to be released pfSense 2.1 will default to IPv4 DHCP and IPv6 
DHCP-PD. I don't see why not. If the ISP supplies it, why not use it?

Regards,

Seth


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