On Wed 19 Jun 2019 at 04:23:15 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > On 19/06/19 4:12 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 17 Jun 2019 at 10:38:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> But that opens yet another container of worms. If I arbitrarily assign > >> ipv6 local addresses, and later, ipv6 shows up at my side of the router, > >> what if I have an address clash with someone on a satellite circuit in > >> Ulan Bator. How is that resolved, by unroutable address blocks such as > >> 192.168.xx.xx is now? > > > > Seems a good reason not to bother setting up ipv6 local addresses > > until we (you and I) understand it and ever see ipv6 on this side > > of the modem. I'm not holding my breath. > > If you never try setting it up, when do you expect to understand it? And > I see IPv6 on my side of the modem; I suspect many others do too. I > expect you'll get it sooner or later.
What's more relevant to me is not when IPv6 is made availble to me, but when IPv4 is withdrawn. Until then, I have IPv6 disabled in the router. It really comes down to the cost/benefit ratio. Currently the benefit is almost zero, so any cost makes the ratio almost infinite. Lastly, what do you understand by the word "understand"? I wouldn't claim to understand much of IPv4 as I've no need to. Judging by your https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/06/msg00554.html you're doing far more sophisticated things than I ever expect to do. I trust that by the time I might need IPv4, there'll be plenty of HOWTOs floating around for simple setups. Cheers, David.
