[ale] Comcast Static IPv6?

[Robert L. Harris]

I'm looking at a Business class with Comcast since I work from home anyway
but in the mean time I was looking at this:

https://www.phildev.net/phil/blog/?p=308

It's a bit old but the scripts look pretty up to date.  As soon as I
bounced my interface though I lost my internal route and thus connectivity
from my firewall to the rest of my network.



On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:17 AM Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 03:57:53PM +0000, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >    I just informed my IPv6 tunnel provider ( Sixxs.net ) is shutting down
> > in 10 weeks.  I've been reading on and off about Comcast's IPv6's support
> > but most of it is 2-3 years old.  Anyone have a good link on setting up
> an
> > Ubuntu firewall to get a IPv6 prefix for use at home?  I don't want to
> pay
> > Comcast for Business support just so my internal network can keep the
> same
> > IPs.  I tried a few weeks ago but the Subnet assigned to me changed daily
> > it seemed even though I didn't go off line at all.
>
> If you don't have a static IP allocation from comcast, then you won't
> have any expectation of a stable IP address allocation, be it v4 or v6.
>
> But in all seriousness, who cares if your home network v6 prefix (and
> addresses) change?  Use v4 for your internal name resolution.  What's
> running your internal network?  dnsmasq or dhcpd+named?
>
> (I've been using a Hurricane Electric tunnel with my Comcast Business
>  setup, although I intend to shut that down soonish now that Comcast has
>  finally started assinging static IPv6 prefixes to folks with static v4
>  allocations)
>
>  - Solomon
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