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     Re: Connection Tests   
     By: deon to Rob Swindell on Mon Apr 03 2023 09:58 pm   
      
    > Assume you can ping your ip6 addresses from the inside of your network?   
      
   Yes. And connect to TCP services (e.g. Telnet, etc.)   
      
    > Your router is probably blocking IPv6 traffic (most I've seen do), and   
    > you'll probably need to enable ICMP and relevant traffic to hosts if you   
    > want to enable inbound ipv6.   
      
   I've never used the ISP's router's port blocking/forwarding/NAT/gateway   
   features before (for IPv4), so now I'm looking what it supports. It does have   
   DHCPv6 and DHCP-PD was disabled, so I've enabled that and expecting for it to   
   hand out addresses in the range:   
      
   2600:6c88:8c40:5b::1 to ::1000 (according to its default configuration)   
      
   I haven't seen that happen yet. I'm guessing this means I have been allocated   
   a /64 (?).   
      
    >  > Still a bit mysterious to me with so many addresses and so little   
    >  > information from the ISP. Any tips are welcome,   
    >   
    > First thing would be to figure out if you have a static subnet, and what it   
    > is. Most folks that I've spoken with get a /60 or /56 from their ISP.   
    > Business customers may get a /48. From your prefix (2600:6c88:8c40:5b::),   
    > its not easy to figure out what addresses you got - and it my be a /64   
    > (which would be unusual). And if you got a /60 or /56, its strange that your   
    > router is handing out ...:5b::.   
    >   
    > I dont know Sagemcom so dont know if it is a business router (which probably   
    > gives you some control over handing out addresses), or consumer router   
    > (which would mean its probably useless for ip6).   
      
   Looks like I have control:   
   https://1drv.ms/i/s!ApZPvWcrEaRQ5_wrKOnYR4bZu_jJ3Q?e=8f5cy5   
      
   There are also options for Port Forwarding, Firewall, IPv6 Pin-holing, IPv6   
   DMZ, but I've never used any of those (or similar) features for my public IPv4   
   interfaces (my servers' public IPv4 network interfaces are just "wide open" as   
   far as the ISP router is concerned).   
      
    >  > Still a bit mysterious to me with so many addresses and so little   
    >  > information from the ISP. Any tips are welcome,   
    >   
    > Most OSes switch ip6 addresses regularly (hence the "temporary ones"), so   
    > dont be surprised if the ip6 address chanes often - you can turn it off to   
    > have a consistent one, or assign a static address.   
      
   Thanks. I'll keep playing with it.   
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