Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

Sun Jul 5 12:24:33 UTC 2015

> On Jul 5, 2015, at 5:32 AM, William Waites <wwaites at tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 06:13:52 +0000, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> said:
> 
>> In fact, I show just how to do this using a $99 Apple Airport
>> Express in my three-hour online course “Build your own IPv6 Lab”
> 
> An anectode about this, maybe out of date, maybe not. I was helping my
> friend who likes Apple things connect to the local community
> network. He wanted to use an Airport as his home gateway rather than
> the router that we normally use. Turns out these things can *only* do
> IPv6 with tunnels and cannot do IPv6 on PPPoE. Go figure. So there is
> not exactly a clear path to native IPv6 for your lab this way.

The airport devices/airport express class are not that good of devices
as the embedded software doesn’t handle a lot of traffic or long uptime
well.

Most devices that are over 3 years old likely are not suitable for
IPv6 testing aside from understanding what is broken.  Keep in mind
that software on a CPE device may be 6 months out of date by the time
it comes out of a container stateside.

Expecting people to use tunnels, etc doesn’t really scale properly.

I do wish that I could get static IPv6 prefixes along with my
static IPv4 at home, but having IPv6 at all took precedence.

- Jared