[GTALUG] Surprise, IPv6!

Scott Sullivan scott at ss.org
Sun Nov 1 10:07:03 UTC 2015


So just in a surprised moment of serendipity, my _non-IT_ boyfriend has 
beaten me to IPv6 connectivity and he didn't even know it. I'm a little 
jealous as this has been on my two do list for over half a year.

Back-story, early in 2015 I upgraded his home from early linksys WRT54G 
(linksys firmware), to a D-Link DIR-825 (rev. B1), with OpenWRT 14.07. 
Roughly a month ago OpenWRT 15 was release, so I logged into gather info 
for doing the firmware upgrade and see this.


http://revident.net/images/OpenWRT-network-info-with-IPv6.png


I've known Teksavvy, his provider, has had a beta program for IPv6 for 
DSL customers. I signed up, I have an allocation, but I've not used it yet.

At some point, Teksavvy turned it live, and the OpenWRT router I set-up 
for my BF just picked it up and ran with it. It works!

His connection gets a full 20/20 score from http://ipv6-test.com/

Out of box, no intervention. My boyfriend, and the two other room-mates 
have been using IPv6, for some unknown period (maybe months), with no 
observable difference.

Just Wow! Had to share.



===== Just some info form my laptop. ========


[scott at arcticnoise fonts]$ ifconfig
[...snip...]
wlp1s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.4.230  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.4.255
         inet6 fd1c:3456:4edf::1ef  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x0<global>
         inet6 2607:f2c0:9281:1900::1ef  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x0<global>
         inet6 2607:f2c0:9281:1900:3210:b3ff:fe9b:457c  prefixlen 64 
scopeid 0x0<global>
         inet6 fd1c:3456:4edf:0:3210:b3ff:fe9b:457c  prefixlen 64 
scopeid 0x0<global>
         inet6 fe80::3210:b3ff:fe9b:457c  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         ether 30:10:b3:9b:45:7c  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 1828026  bytes 2043219415 (1.9 GiB)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 2457050
         TX packets 1108781  bytes 250361333 (238.7 MiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
         device interrupt 41

[scott at arcticnoise fonts]$ ping6 google.com
PING google.com(yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=143 ms
64 bytes from yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=156 ms
64 bytes from yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=158 ms
64 bytes from yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=190 ms
64 bytes from yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=288 ms
64 bytes from yyz08s14-in-x05.1e100.net: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=403 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 143.201/223.390/403.423/93.816 ms
[scott at arcticnoise fonts]$ ping6 -n google.com
PING google.com(2607:f8b0:400b:80b::1005) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:400b:80b::1005: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=106 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:400b:80b::1005: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=133 ms
64 bytes from 2607:f8b0:400b:80b::1005: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=142 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 106.601/127.501/142.416/15.227 ms

-- 
Scott Sullivan


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