On 2019-11-26 15:41, Ralph Seichter wrote:
* Daniel Frey:
Can't do anything, ipv6 is completely disabled (removed from kernel
config.)
A search for "linux kernel enable ipv6" just returned more than 1.7
million results.
Even if I recompile my custom kernels it won't work.
Current ISP will not issue any ipv6 if an ipv4 static is required.
My current ISP offers native IPv6 and has been doing so for years.
While choice varies across different countries, IPv6 availability has
increased considerably over the last 10 years, which is why SiXXs.net
has discontinued services[1] mid 2017. Even a small amount of searching
should turn up a decent ISP in most industrialized countries.
That's great! Except I'm obviously not living where you are. I have
exactly one choice for an ISP and I need a static IP. The ISP disables
ipv6 for some reason when you have a static IP.
Housing is terribly expensive here and I'm not moving to get ipv6,
that's just stupid.
Seriously, IPv4 may appear to work "just fine" for you, but there is a
lot of nasty stuff like NAT going on under the hood. IPv6 means a lot
less hassle if you have a decent ISP and a halfway modern router.
They do have ipv6 on residential accounts and their implementation has
caused many problems with devices. This was years ago. I would hope
they've fixed all the network delays that were present with a dual-stack
configuration - one of the major issues is that a single DNS lookup
would take 90 seconds to return a result. Only way to fix it was to
disable ipv6 in their router.
When you phoned in to report a problem, they'd say "looks good on our
end" and close the ticket. I disabled ipv6 that day, but when I got a
static IP I found out I couldn't get ipv6 anyway.
Dan
