In my previous post I talked about what I learnt about IPv6. In this post I want to show you how easy it is to set up IPv6 using pfSense as the router, and Zen Internet (UK) as the ISP. Request IPv6 from Zen Email Zen and ask for IPv6, and it should be ready the same day, excluding weekends. You will receive an email from them with information like this: ...
IPv4 As you may already know IANA, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, have exhausted the IPv4 address space. Today, we are forced to use Network Address Translation (NAT) for home and mobile environments to translate the public IP address given to us by our ISP to internal private non-routable v4 addresses on our home devices. This works but is messy and problems will only increase as the number of devices in the world grows. We have already run out of IPv4 address space and some ISPs are implementing horrible solutions to get round it by using things like carrier grade NAT (CGN). ...