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I am an IPv6 maxi (and I love to see this, it’s great), but even I had to chuckle at this line:

> or ask your ISP to enable IPv6 on your network

Try pulling that with Bell Canada. It’s not coming and they don’t care.

(For context, I am behind @BellNoIPv6 on twitter)

I asked RCN for IPv6 every year or two since 2010 at dslreports. They've changed their name to Astound, since then. It may be Astounding, but they still have no IPv6.

It's OK. I've decided that even when my house has IPv6 native, the Hurricane Electric tunnel is still quite useful to me. Static addresses are always nicer than dynamic.

I understand the sentiment, but I won’t accept the latency penalty. ISPs shouldn’t be doing dynamic prefix assignments anyway because it breaks too much.

Depending on lots of things, it's easily possible that IPv6 via a he.net tunnel gets you better routing than via your carrier directly. I haven't tested, but my current ISP is stingy at peering, and HE.net is well connected on ipv6. They've got a tunnel endpoint at the large internet exchange in the big city near me and my ISP runs all of my traffic through there anyway. Of course, my ISP doesn't run native IPv6, so 6rd vs a configured tunnel is the same overhead; if there were native v6, you do save 20? bytes per packet, which can be significant.

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