Does anyone have suggestions for a beginner friendly home networking guide? How are others setting up their home network?
It's also a bit frustrating to me that routers provide so many options, yet it seems nigh impossible to find clear explanations of what different features mean, along with clear examples of use-cases of when I might want to enable or disable said features. I'll typically keep the defaults if I'm not as familiarized with a subject matter, but if experience has shown anything it's that most system's defaults are typically not designed with security as the top priority.
Can't say I saw any benefits during my brief IPv6 trial. First of all, typing out an IPv6 address is rather tedious. Second, I wasn't able to get a URL with an IPv6 address as the host to work with my browser. Maybe I had to include a scope, or perhaps I screwed something else up. I have no clue.
I also had a few different subnets (to separate IoT and untrusted devices from my network), and I could never consistently get a stable subnet from my ISP outside of a /64 (mind you I am using Pfsense, not a consumer router). When did get a /56 subnet, I had a lot of connectivity issues I never had with only IPv4, and they went away instantly once I blocked all IPv6 off my network. I was also never able to confirm outside connectivity into my network via IPv6 either.
I may try it again, but I really don't want to go through a lot of pain and suffering to try and get IPv6 "working" to only have those connectivity issues again.
Are you saying that NAT is technically impossible with IPv6? Because I have doubts about such a statement.
NAT66 disagrees with you. It’s been in the Linux kernel since version 3.7.
Whether you should do it is a different question, but saying NAT capabilities don’t exist with IPv6 is incorrect.
At this point it seems to me it’s more of a nice to have than a requirement.
On the contrary, ipv6 is enabled on my public server and works fine.
Except for the fact that, you know, we've _literally_ ran out of addresses bar a very, very limited supply? And that _billions_ of people won't be able to access the internet as a result?
I can only imagine we'll be this complacent with things like oil, or plastic pollution or anything. Only acting when it's _far_ too late. Every ISP around the world should have pledged IPv6 20 years ago, but some are _still_ not starting today!
You may think you're fine because you are able to access ycombinator.com and leave your message, but imagine how many people simply cannot access the v4 network due to address shortages.
With ipv4, never had a problem.
More recently, I enabled IPv6 and everything Just Worked. Now I want to turn off IPv4...
