Is moving to IPv6 worth it?

Sandbag@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 118 points –

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

142

You are viewing a single comment

A good isp would give you something bigger than a /64 - /56 or /48. something that you can subnet.

wouldn't /64 still leave you with 64 bits for you to do whatever? Ipv6 has a 128 bit address. If you can do subnets with a small usable portion of 32 bits, then you certainly can with a full 64 bits

The smallest recommended IPv6 subnet is /64. The biggest issue you will encounter is that SLAAC will refuse to work on anything smaller, and it just so happens that Android still doesn't support DHCPv6 and will be left without a valid address.

Android still doesn’t support DHCPv6 and will be left without a valid address.

RFC 7934 explains their reasoning, though it's not exactly an ironclad argument.

Good point - I should have said "at least a /64 range".