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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Ipv6 is broken for those that want control over their home networks thanks to Google and terribly written RFCs.

All that was needed was an extra byte or two of address space, but no, some high and mighty evangelicals in their ivory towers built something that few people understand 30 years later. Their die hard fans are sure that this will be the year of ipv6. The Year of Linux on the Desktop will come 10 years before the year of ipv6.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ipv6 is broken for those that want control over their home networks

    I don't see how? Works great for my home network.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I want per device firewall and DNS rules for myself, the wife and the kids. With opnsense or pfsense I don't believe this is possible with SLAAC, which is what android only supports.

    Shove all devices on a flat network with no special firewall rules and you are probably golden. But trying to control your own network, last few times I've tried, is impossible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I've done this using separate networks, each device group I want to treat differently get's its own subnet/vlan pair and I firewall the whole vlan. No matter what ips clients have (or even what ips they statically set themself) they can't get past the firewall.

    To physically get them connected to the network I use something similar to this config to have one wpa2-personal ssid that leads to multiple vlans depending on the password. Though you could also have multiple ssids with one vlan each or even wpa2-enterprise.

    The router doesn't know the IP of android devices (though it doesn't need to), it only knows the vlans of the clients and what network they come from. For all other clients I have dhcpv6.

    DNS is on the router and can be set for each network.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What did Google do? Just curious as I'm not into home networking

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    is a /56 not enough address space for your home network

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My home network is millions of ants with tiny little backpacks

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    The backpacks themselves? I'm glad you asked. So, they each function on an actor model, where each potential state for each actor has its own address...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    are there quintillions of states

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, actually tbh the address space is the least of my worries. At this point I'm gonna be honest, the ants just don't wanna play ball

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