Comment by ComputerGuru 20 hours ago
This seems as good a place to ask as any: how does one obtain a (larger) block of IPv6 not via their ISP/datacenter and then route it (to a network they control) through their ISP/datacenter-provided IPv6 uplink? Is that even possible?
Thanks. Same process as IPv4, but my question was more focused on the ??? magical last step of getting the ISP to advertise that route.
Literally you just talk to your ISP. A support ticket or a technical phone contact. They'll either just do it for you or get you set up to announce your routes to them.
You'll need an ISP that does actual business networking things, probably. I doubt Xfinity home service would do it for you.
> You'll need an ISP that does actual business networking things, probably. I doubt Xfinity home service would do it for you.
It would be nice if someone made a wiki somewhere of which ISP's worldwide will do this on which plans.
I'd really like to have two ISP's and BGP peer with both, so that if one goes down all my systems keep the same IP address and maintain connectivity.
The whole idea of everyone having just one connection in a fragile tree-like structure seems against the original design goals of the internet.
If you are in RIPE land you can get a PI (provider independent) /48 from a LIR (a RIPE member) and ask your datacenter to announce it.
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6/request-ipv6/h...
https://tunnelbroker.net/ will give you a free IPv6 subnet and you can route it over your existing IPv4 link. I think you can get either a /64 or /48.
I had a tunnel with them I was using for a while, but ended up turning it off a couple of months ago.
Any request to a CDN will be slower since you’re not hitting the cache closest to your actual ISP, and since it’s “a VPN” a lot of things start to break, need more captchas, or get blocked for you since there’s a higher level of abuse from HE’s tunnel broker IP blocks.
Oh wow, I didn’t know they were still around! I used that to get an IPv6 address more than a decade ago; I think they used the bastardized IPv4-mapped-to-v6 address format at the time. But iirc it involved extra network hops because it was tunneled rather than routed, but maybe I’m misremembering.
I’m guessing they have larger blocks for sale?
You get yourself an AS and a registration and then talk to your ISPs about how to BGP peer with them.
Read this to start wtih
https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/#end...