| ▲ | Spooky23 3 hours ago | |
Exactly. Spectrum delivers good IPv6 service in my area. I tried it when I upgraded my gateway. All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs, hostnames are replaced by auto assigned stuff from the ISP, and lots of random things don’t work. I went from being pumped to learn more to realizing I’m going to invest a lot of time and I could not identify and tangible benefit. | ||
| ▲ | tjohns an hour ago | parent [-] | |
The biggest tangible benefit is you don't need to worry about NAT port mapping any more. Every device can have a public address, and you can have multiple servers exposing services on the same port without a conflict. (The flip side is having a network-level firewall is more important than ever.) You also don't have to worry about running a DHCP server anymore, at least on small networks. The simplicity of SLAAC is a breath of fresh air, and removes DHCP as a single point of failure for a network. | ||