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how many of you are IPv6?

Marzipan

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how difficult is it to switch from IPv4 to IPv6 and what kinds of hiccups or unintended consequences can be expected? you know...the growing pains?

where I live we only have City West as an Internet provider and doing a quick Google search says that they do support IPv6 as the modem / routers they provide are Gigaspire with WiFi 6. Quad9 says I am IPv4 though, so I'm not sure if it's as easy as changing the settings in the router or if I need to contact CW support and have them do something on the backend.
 
Enable dual stack and both ipv4 and ipv6 will be enabled. IPv6 does make a lot of things easier... makes things like port forwarding and reverse proxies obsolete unless you want those targets to still support ipv4 traffic.

My only pain point is it went flawlessly in the office... for some reason not working at home (same ISP, same router).
 
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Enable dual stack and both ipv4 and ipv6 will be enabled. IPv6 does make a lot of things easier... makes things like port forwarding and reverse proxies obsolete unless you want those targets to still support ipv4 traffic.

My only pain point is it went flawlessly in the office... for some reason not working at home (same ISP, same router).
I assume dual stack is an option I can enable in the Gigaspire?
 
You might need to check with the ISP's default settings... Shaw was /56? & DCHPV6 (static, SLAAC, DCHPv6) who ever your connected with might be different
 
With respect, why are you personally concerned with affecting the change? This is largely an IP carrier concern.
Do you have a specific home-lab requirement?
 
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