Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:'s posts Post Back to profile
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

"Your cellphone primarily uses IPv6. Its IPv4 connectivity is a kludge of carrier-grade NAT and a collection of workarounds that I’d call black magic if the Evil Wizards Union wouldn’t sue me for slander."

Networking for Systems Administrators, 2nd edition, is now open for sponsorships. 23 more print sponsors and I'll do another challenge coin.

tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc

7 November at 18:57 | Open on io.mwl.io
14 comments
smeg

@mwl meanwhile, my fiber ISP keeps saying they support IPv6, but that my particular node doesn't route IPv6. As a result, I can get an IP, but I can't actually connect to anything.

I know a Network Architect there. I should probably ask him about it.

7 November at 19:03 | Open on assortedflotsam.com
keschi / cache :blobCat_in_box:

@mwl mine does get a public IPv4, and no IPv6

7 November at 19:08 | Open on catcatnya.com
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@kescher oh, wow. Who's your carrier? What country are you in?

7 November at 19:11 | Open on io.mwl.io
keschi / cache :blobCat_in_box:

@mwl drei.at

Only business contracts get IPv6, and only on an on-demand basis, because that ISP has so many fucking IPv4 addresses

7 November at 19:13 | Open on catcatnya.com
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@kescher ah, yeah. Those legacy orgs get discussed in the previous paragraph.

7 November at 19:14 | Open on io.mwl.io
Thomas Schäfer

@mwl @kescher

In Germany all four carriers provide IPv6.

7 November at 20:30 | Open on ipv6.social
cynicalsecurity :cm_2:

@mwl CGNAT is like taking the Devil and giving it a course in Cthulhu.

7 November at 19:36 | Open on bsd.network
Luis Bruno
serious business :donor: :heart_cyber:

@mwl I hear the Evil Wizards Union has great benefits and a strong history of securing wage increases

7 November at 21:08 | Open on infosec.exchange
4censord :neocat_flag_pan:

@mwl was just on my way to sponsor, when i realized i did already

7 November at 21:12 | Open on unfug.social
domi

@mwl not a single polish GSM carrier does IPv6 by default. At least two of them do only for business contracts. The situation with residential ISPs isn’t much better, with one (UPC/Play) offering a selection between IPv6 + tunneling IPv4 to one IP half a country away or just native IPv4, and several others offering IPv6 (but turning it on breaks IPTV/telephony on their default config).

I hecking wish my phone did IPv6 - outside my wireguard tunnel, at least.

7 November at 21:20 | Open on donotsta.re
js

@mwl I WISH my cellphone would use IPv6!

7 November at 22:27 | Open on ap.nil.im
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

@mwl Yeah can confirm .. my phone always seems to have functional ipv6 on cellular but apps want to do 4 and it often just doesn't work

8 November at 5:17 | Open on fosstodon.org
Go Up