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People still working in IT, thoughts on IPv6?
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Noobie question, wouldn't the ISP decide what your outgoing IPv6 address is? Like they do with IPv4? I mean no matter how many times I restart my router, my public IP remains the same so I always thought it was assigned by them.
For reference, in the US, Comcast only gives up to a /60 for residential connections. It's still fine for most use cases, but it does feel a bit like doing a bit of penny pinching when you're wondering if you have enough /64's for how your network is going to be set up.
Yeah, fortunately, for my own use cases, /60 is enough, but I can't think of a good reason for Comcast to not give out /56 since they're pretty cheap compared to IPv4.