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The question above for the most part, been reading up on it. Also want to it for learning purposes.

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Definitely dual stack if you do. The real benefit of IPv6 is that, supposedly, each of your internal devices can have its own address and be directly accessible, but I don't think anyone actually wants all of their internal network exposed to the internet. My ISP provides IPv6, but only a single /128 address, so everything still goes through NAT.

Setting it up was definitely a learning process - SLAAC vs DHCP; isc's dhcpd uses all different keywords for 6 vs 4, you have to run 6 and 4 in separate processes. It's definitely doable, but I think the main benefit is the knowledge you gain.

[–] Katrina@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And the biggest disadvantage of IPv6 is that each of your internal devices has its own address and can be directly accessible from outside. So you need to completely rethink how you do security.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And can be identified/tracked individually by outside entities. In IPv4, a website sees both my device and my kid's device as the same IP. In IPv6 they're different so this just provides more ways for them to track you.

[–] Onion6068@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

That's the reason for rcf 4941. It randomises the host part of your IPv6 address.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4941

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