[olug] I seem to have an Omaha Cox Residential IPV6 address

Greg Gerke ggerke at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 06:35:33 CDT 2016


Is there a way to tell how long the lease is on the IPv6 address? I'm also
in the firmly n00b category here but it seems like with the slightly larger
space that IPv6 gives then the only time you'd have to get/be given a new
one is if the company providing the IP is re-jiggering their mapping.

But I could be horribly, horribly confused.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:

> Well it didn't take me too long to get an IPv6 home network set up with a
> DHCP /56 allotment tonight.
> ....now I need to figure out how to dynamically DNS it all up because um I
> have no clue how to get to all my stuff if all my stuff gets an address
> change.
> I'm guessing I can locally statically assign the /56 side of the address if
> they are going to give me 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IP addresses to use
> every time.
>
> My LAN and WAN addresses only have this part in common 2600:8804 of the
> 2600:8804::/34  ....but my LAN is getting assigned the consistent /56 I
> requested.
> ......I am excited about being a n00b again.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Lou
> Duchez
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:00 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] I seem to have an Omaha Cox Residential IPV6 address
>
> Cool!  Um, I think it's cool anyway.
>
> I'm still pretty peevish at IPv6 for not supporting NAT.  The address of my
> printer should not depend on which carrier I'm using.
>
> Used to be I had two different Internet connections at work, and I was able
> to set up one as the primary and one as the failover. Worked like a dream
> ... but it would not be possible under IPv6.
>
>
> > Maybe I am late to the party but I just noticed my pfSense box is
> > getting assigned an IPv6 WAN address via DHCP.
> > I can ping ipv6.l.google.com with it natively.
> >
> >
> >
> > PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) <redacted ipv6 address> -->
> > 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e
> >
> > 16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e, icmp_seq=0 hlim=57 time=28.695
> > ms
> >
> > 16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e, icmp_seq=1 hlim=57 time=25.456
> > ms
> >
> > 16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4000:801::200e, icmp_seq=2 hlim=57 time=26.253
> > ms
> >
> >
> >
> > --- ipv6.l.google.com ping6 statistics ---
> >
> > 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> >
> > round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 25.456/26.801/28.695/1.378 ms
> >
> >
> >
> > I need to start learning all of the IPv6 wizardry very soon.
> >
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Greg Gerke
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