IPv6 support on Virgin media
Does anyone know whether (and if so when) Virgin plan to implement IPv6 on its network?
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Well, here we are, a hundred pages of messages (and a few days shy of TEN **bleep** YEARS!) in - and, since the SixXS tunnels were collapsed close down a few years ( https://www.sixxs.net/sunset/ ) back because they felt a IPv6 tunnel broker was no longer needed (apart from anything was the fact that it might be encouraging ISPs to not bother with IPv6 because the admittedly small proportion of interested end-users desiring IPv6 could be largely fobbed off with a tunnel), I am unable to get to https://loopsofzen.uk/ for fun...
IPv6 is the future - and that is where VM seems to want to keep it!
Just popped in to see if there was any updates on this and the answer looks to be a NO. A ten year thread on IPv6 with it still not implemented. Now I know the wheels of industry grind slow but this has got to be classed as stuck in reverse!
- they are too busy with shaping any possibility of using IPv6 like tunnels, they started to shape upload also now.
I was under the impression that no traffic shaping currently takes place.
A quick google doesn't seem to show me anything.
The old page on VM Site links to a document that is basically empty, it has boxes to be filled in with what sort of shaping takes place, but they are not filled in at all.
Just curious if you have a source.
Hello
Yep you are right VM stopped traffic shaping/throttling a few years ago June 2018. As stated in https://www.virginmedia.com/help/virgin-media-broadband-traffic-management-policy.
With regards to IPv6 VM did trail it a while ago and never took off, VM decided in the UK that as they have enough IPv4 addresses themselves it did't take off as the system they trailed wasn't full IPv6, mind you saying that from what I have seen around is that VM Eire used IPv6 as default for the consumer market.
A lot of VM backend systems are already IPv6 like this forum as if you use a tunnel and check your profile it shows an IPv6 address. I personally use Hurricane Electric - https://www.tunnelbroker.net tunnel via a pfSense box.
Regards Mike
Regards Mike
