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IPv6 is now live on SMARTY
Just a heads up that IPv6 is being now being rolled out by THREE and works with SMARTY. I am now assigned both an IPv6 and IPv6 address. It's being switching on mast by mast so you should automatically receive this service in the near future if you haven't already benefited from it.
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I assume it’s a long rollout if mast by mast.
Thanks WelshPaul ! Does this mean that devices on the Smarty network should then be free of CG-NAT issues and have an external IP? Or do you think the v6 addresses will still be behind NAT routing from the WAN side?
Any idea of the timescale on this? Would love to get v6 on my phone without having to VPN it.
Interesting as I use Smarty as a WAN failover, so would like to get dual stack configured on the Netear router/pfsense.
Do you know how to get it switched off?
What's the difference between the two
There aren't enough IPv4 for every device to get one, so we've ended resorting to hacks like sharing IP addresses among pools of people, which creates a whole host of issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT).
With IPv6 there are many, many more IP addresses available, in fact more than we could ever use. This means every device gets to have its own (public) IP address again, the way the Internet was designed to work in the first place.
The main difference is IPv6 supports more network connected devices than IPv4.
