[Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

Mon Jun 13 17:49:38 UTC 2022

Curious to know if the 'saved the day' was really 'fell into a different
rate-limit bucket' for UDP by address family :)

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:53 AM Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

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> > On Jun 13, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Brielle <bruns at 2mbit.com> wrote:
> >
> > I quickly reconfigured the Cys WireGuard node to connect to the Den node
> over IPv6 and, after WireGuard did its magic dynamically reconfiguring
> endpoints, suddenly the connection was back up and routing at full speed.
> Hell yeah!
> >
> > So, moral / TLDR of the story?
> >
> > Don't discount taking the time to set up IPv6, even if it's just for
> your important devices. Also, WireGuard > IPsec.
>
> This is great to hear.  I know that many things will operate better in
> IPv6 land vs IPv4 land as in IPv4 land there’s a lot of port-based
> filtering that happens in networks which isn’t the same in IPv6-land.
>
> Super glad to hear that IPv6 saved the day for you!
>
> - Jared
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