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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 15:37:19 +0200
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On 2025-05-19 14:54, Marc Haber wrote:
> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2025-05-19 08:14, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-18 05:45, c186282 wrote:
>>>>>      As for IPV6 ... my ISP doesn't use it. NO use at
>>>>>      all - so I disable it to prevent problems.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have any problem with it enabled.
>>>>
>>>> I think I had some issue years ago, bu I have forgotten about it.
>>>
>>> that's how it's supposed to work. On the Internet Exchance Points, the
>>> majority of traffic is IPv6 in these days.
>>
>> It is my ISP who has a problem. They haven't said which, but my educated
>> guess is that many of the routers they installed are faulty. For
>> example, mine does not protect the LAN with a firewall on IPv6, all
>> machines are directly exposed.
> 
> I would only expect firewall functionality on a device that claims to
> be a firewall. That being said, such functionality is vitally
> important for an end user network.
> 
> Can you disable IPv6 on the router? That would be easier than doing so
> on every device on the network, and also easier to revert should the
> IPv6 support of your ISP become useable at some future point in time.

You don't understand. I say that the ISP is not deploying IPv6 because 
their routers (which are almost mandatory) are faulty and don't fully 
support IPv6. As for example, the firewall, which is an absolute 
necessity on IPv6⁽¹⁾, is not functional on IPv6 mode. It is working fine 
on IPv4.

We are talking home users. The ISP supplied router does many things. 
Even the house phone is plugged into it.

(1) Because there is no NAT. All machines inside the home become 
directly accessible from internet when using IPv6.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.