Does your ISP support IPv6?

@toroidalcore the ISP with fiber to my house? no. the ISP I started to provide IPv6 to myself? yes.

@littlefox I definitely envy that, especially the extra public IPS, although I don't know what I do with more than gigabit.

I have an order in with a fiber ISP that's finally building out to my area, planning on getting the 500 mb symmetrical package. No public IPv4, but at least they give out a /60 prefix for IPv6. Right now with cable I have gigabit down and 40 mb up, a /60, and one public IPv4.

@BestGirlGrace What's your setup, are you tunneling it from somewhere?

@toroidalcore Yeah, I have a Wireguard tunnel from my home to my colo in downtown Seattle that does all the BGP stuff.

@nicolas17 Sounds like it might have been a misconfiguration or something. Like maybe they gave out a new modem, but didn't update the config it's supposed to retrieve.

@BestGirlGrace So you have a whole AS going? That's badass.

@toroidalcore Thank you! It's been a lot of fun.

it's all worth it to open bgp.tools and see your name on there.

@toroidalcore it would have been interesting to have an “I don’t know” answer perhaps.

@toroidalcore naming and shaming. CenturyLink does not.

@toroidalcore yes! they are very confusing to me

@BestGirlGrace I'd like to give it a try someday, but too many other projects at the moment.

@maurice Fair enough. In making the pole I was thinking of people who'd checked if they'd had it or not.

@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town Ehhhh, it's not quite a yes or no for mine.
If you're billed as a residential account, flat out NO. If you're billed as a business account, you can get it if you go out of your way to ask for it.

Fucking pathetic, imo.

@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town The only real saving grace is that I get two public IPv4 addresses, so I can at least run a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel, which I've done.

@theraspb @toroidalcore yes and yes, but it randomly stops working every once in a while until i restart the DHCPv6 client on the router because sometimes the ISP CPE decides to stop routing my static delegated /56 until I create a new DHCPv6 session (renewing the lease doesn't fix it).

Also cursed: if the DHCPv4 server on the CPE is turned off (even though I don't use DHCPv4 since i have a static /32) it'll hand out a delegated prefix but not update the routing table on the CPE so the delegated prefix won't route.

And you can't ask it to delegate the /56. That would be way too logical. You have to make a separate PD request for each /60 in the /56

@azonenberg

Any chance of using your own CPE?

@theraspb

@toroidalcore @theraspb i wish, not on comcast business

@azonenberg

Oof. That's an option on Spectrum, though I haven't bothered with it.

Have that gotten high-split for you yet? Spectrum's planning on it supposedly, and they plan to offer 1 gig symmetrical.

@theraspb

@maddy I'm honestly surprised when I hear about people getting more than one public IPv4 address without asking for it, or getting business class. It feels like getting a public IPv4 at all is rare unless you're on a bigger ISP who had a bunch of them already.

@toroidalcore @theraspb I'm told that some upgrades on the docsis side are coming, which will enable 1G symmetric (I'm on 500 down / 35 up IIRC at the moment).

They've been saying that for something like the past two or three years. I'm not holding my breath.

But last time I quoted for fiber they would have had to directional-drill the entire length of my street at an estimated cost of around $80K. So that's not an option yet.

There's new apartments being built the next street over though, fingers crossed they run a fiber to that building and maybe I can get an install for <$50K at some point