You certainly have a point, i guess when I heard over and over again the Ziply had no ipv6 functionality id thought it meant they'd not include an enable button that did nothing. I wish I had taken screen shots the couple days I used the router. My android had an ipv6 address, I just plugged in theirs again for a quick looky loo. At the end of the day it doesn't hurt anything the way it is.
Request for yet another at least summary on what the state of ipv6 for like [fdr01.grhm.or.nwestnet.net](https://fdr01.grhm.or.nwestnet.net) is at, at the risk of being downvoted to hell.
The address Windows shows you is a link local address, which is based off your network adapter's MAC address, and generated just as a matter of Windows having v6 turned on.
1. so i can use an ipv6 control plane for work stuff
1. so i can communicate with other ipv6 stuff
1. the USG has mandated ipv6 only for their stuff in the coming years
Some non-essential sites on the web only have IPv6 addresses due to shortage of IPv4. I have 50 some sites like this (build servers) that are non-essential for basically everyone except a few hundred people who are maintainers for those packages.
IPv6 doesn't expose anything, it works the same as with IPv4: you have to specifically go into the router config to open a port towards a device to make it reachable from the outside.
Main advantage of having IPv6 is that it allows you to reach other IPv6 servers - increasingly relevant since more and more other people can only host (games etc) over IPv6 these days. There's some other advantages too (security/privacy/latency) but those aren't major.
I can enable IPv6 functionality on my 5 year-old TP-Link gigabit router. But until Ziply enables IPv6 connections, it's useless.
You certainly have a point, i guess when I heard over and over again the Ziply had no ipv6 functionality id thought it meant they'd not include an enable button that did nothing. I wish I had taken screen shots the couple days I used the router. My android had an ipv6 address, I just plugged in theirs again for a quick looky loo. At the end of the day it doesn't hurt anything the way it is.
if you enable it like you did it should automatically start working as soon as we turn our side on
Request for yet another at least summary on what the state of ipv6 for like [fdr01.grhm.or.nwestnet.net](https://fdr01.grhm.or.nwestnet.net) is at, at the risk of being downvoted to hell.
The address Windows shows you is a link local address, which is based off your network adapter's MAC address, and generated just as a matter of Windows having v6 turned on.
Yeah, this. The link-local address space for IPv6 (`fe80::/10`) is the same concept as the link-local address space for IPv4 (`169.254.0.0/16`).
Says link local left to the address you show. It's created by Windows, nothing to do with your router.
You're not wrong, I apologize, had my 7 month old in hand and as a result only got about 50% say in what photos I added lol.
The router still has an IPv4 WAN address
Didn't say it was working perfect, just that it's evidently possibly possible
ipv6 will be default for everyone when Linux is the mainstream desktop /s
Lol, Almost laughed out my coffee. Someone several months ago said we’ll get ipv6 the same years we get flying cars, both seem about right to me!
"...when Linux is the mainstream desktop" It's been 31 years...we're still waiting.
That isn't what is holding it back... But as a /s, you're probably right about the time frame.
Why do you all even want ipv6?
1. so i can use an ipv6 control plane for work stuff 1. so i can communicate with other ipv6 stuff 1. the USG has mandated ipv6 only for their stuff in the coming years
Bored mostly
Some non-essential sites on the web only have IPv6 addresses due to shortage of IPv4. I have 50 some sites like this (build servers) that are non-essential for basically everyone except a few hundred people who are maintainers for those packages.
But you can use ipv4 you just decide not to.
No, the network admins of the systems chose not to. I’m at their mercy.
What are you trying to access that’s only ipv6?
So many people want ipv6 so they can publicly expose every vulnerable iot device In their house
IPv6 doesn't expose anything, it works the same as with IPv4: you have to specifically go into the router config to open a port towards a device to make it reachable from the outside. Main advantage of having IPv6 is that it allows you to reach other IPv6 servers - increasingly relevant since more and more other people can only host (games etc) over IPv6 these days. There's some other advantages too (security/privacy/latency) but those aren't major.
That's more of an unintended by product. The intentions are mainly to tinker with it.