Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

On 2025-06-25 10:42, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2025 12:27:35 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
 

It is my ISP who has a problem. They haven't said which, but my educated
guess is that many of the routers they installed are faulty. For
example, mine does not protect the LAN with a firewall on IPv6, all
machines are directly exposed.

 Why are you using an ISP-supplied router? I have always bought my own.

Because the required (by the ISP) configuration to support TV-over-fibre, telephone-over-fibre and internet is not published.

 Even when I was on ADSL, I found a USB device (Conexant AccessRunner) for
which you could get firmware that would run it as just a modem, not a
router, so I could connect it as an extra network interface on a Linux box
and have that handle the routing. I just had to set it up as a PPP-over-
ATM connection.
 Nowadays, with fibre, all the on-premise connections are Ethernet anyway,
which makes things even easier.

On ADSL times, the vendors sold routers that supported the ADSL configuration from my ISP right out of the box. You just had to replace the router and click "configure it for Telefónica".
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Cheers, Carlos.