on 27-03-2010 18:11
on 14-05-2022 08:29
on 14-05-2022 20:47
The Iceland website didn’t work/was blocked via the HE tunnel on Tuesday, but a quick email fixed that.
on 15-05-2022 11:26
Well, I'm certainly pleased to hear that. I'll give it another go. Challenge for me right now is getting the performance from a router as my current Mikrotik hardware only supports hardware offload for TCP/UDP on IPv4. Realistically I need something much beefier CPU-wise than my CRS309. Thinking of fanless Intel Xeon D based system and rolling it myself with Linux so I can also do dynamic DNS for HE and Cloudflare, but maybe I should look at more Mikrotik?
on 15-05-2022 11:31
@IllLustration wrote:Well, I'm certainly pleased to hear that. I'll give it another go. Challenge for me right now is getting the performance from a router as my current Mikrotik hardware only supports hardware offload for TCP/UDP on IPv4. Realistically I need something much beefier CPU-wise than my CRS309. Thinking of fanless Intel Xeon D based system and rolling it myself with Linux so I can also do dynamic DNS for HE and Cloudflare, but maybe I should look at more Mikrotik?
I'm using a NetGate SG3100. Very functional and seems to have plenty of oomph. Also natively supports 6in4 tunnels. It should still suffice for me when I move up to 1 Gbit/s for the Internet connection (when VM Business finally decide to offer it in my area :-().
on 15-05-2022 11:45
I bought an i5 based mini router thingy from China, and stuck pfSense on it.
Seems to run well. I 'only' get about 500-600 MBits/sec out of my IPv6 link to HE with it (over 900MBits/sec on IPv4), but to be honest that's more than enough.
Andy
on 16-05-2022 13:08
10-06-2022 08:46 - edited 10-06-2022 08:47
Well, it's finally happening! Openreach are deploying FTTP in my area, loads of activity on one.network and contractors for Openreach are in the area, digging up pavements and putting in ducting with connection points outside each address. I got pinged recently that next week Openreach contractors are specifically at my road. Luckily, I live on a newer estate which already has underground ducting and a existing entry cover for the FTTC line, so hopefully no digging and more a case of just running the fibre when it gets to me.
There's going to be some competition for fibre broadband finally that's not FTTC/VDSL. What's going to be first to go live, an alternative FTTP provider or Virgin Media deploying IPv6. The race is on!
on 10-06-2022 10:13
@jamesmacwhite wrote:What's going to be first to go live, an alternative FTTP provider or Virgin Media deploying IPv6. The race is on!
I think I know where I'd put my money if I were a gambling man...
Andy
10-06-2022 11:27 - edited 10-06-2022 11:28
I wish I could get FTTP, just for improved upload. The crazy thing for me is I live on a small 50s estate and the first 6 houses are served from a pole on the main road and have FTTP available from the Chorley exchange, the others are served from poles on the estate connected to Bamber Bridge with no FTTP available to us. we are scheduled to get FTTP by 2024 so stuck with VM for some time yet.
Still I just checked my tunnel speed. I use PfSense to create the tunnel and deliver a /64 to the home network.
So 600Mb download, so still some overhead from HE being consumed or capped.
on 10-06-2022 11:41
@Timwilky wrote:I wish I could get FTTP, just for improved upload. The crazy thing for me is I live on a small 50s estate and the first 6 houses are served from a pole on the main road and have FTTP available from the Chorley exchange, the others are served from poles on the estate connected to Bamber Bridge with no FTTP available to us. we are scheduled to get FTTP by 2024 so stuck with VM for some time yet.
Still I just checked my tunnel speed. I use PfSense to create the tunnel and deliver a /64 to the home network.
So 600Mb download, so still some overhead from HE being consumed or capped.
It's worth routing your /48 over your HE tunnel, rather than the single /64. Gives you room for the future for multiple subnets i.e. if you want to have multiple VLANs etc. It prevents issues if you wanted to scale up with multiple subnets in the future, you cannot (well you can but you shouldn't) subnet a /64 as it's breaks SLAAC. The minimum really should be a /56, with the exception of HE a /48 is probably in the business line category in most cases, some ISPs will still only provide a /64, which is technically not right in my opinion, but as we know, getting IPv6 in the first place is a challenge to begin with.