IPv6 Mailing List?
Can anyone recommend an end-user IPv6 mailing list? (A web forum would also be acceptable.)
I’ve been looking at available lists and they all seem targeted at backbone players and ISPs. I’m looking for something where we can report and resolve problems with our ISPs.
For example, I just got an AT&T business connection and the Edgemark fiber gateway doesn’t provide RA or prefix delegation. It assumes the customer equipment is all leaf nodes that are statically-configured. It doesn’t recognize RA from the customer, either. So I’m using ndppd (added to EPEL7
this morning!) to proxy neighbor announcements through my CentOS7
gateway/firewall.
I have a backup/secondary C7 gateway and it got confused when the primary sent RA for the LAN-side subnet upstream to the common WAN link (via the radvd package) and the secondary added a default routing table entry pointing to the primary gateway instead of using its own statically-configured default gateway setting. That was a head-scratcher until I noticed my firewall logs on the main gateway showing dropped DNS
packets from the secondary that should have been going to the ISP gateway. IPv6 DNS was failing on the secondary with timeouts (10 seconds!) and I
couldn’t figure out what was eating the packets.
So I’m wondering how multiple gateways sharing a link are supposed to cooperate and inform each other without confusing each other about the desired topology.
2 thoughts on - IPv6 Mailing List?
Maybe this is helpful:
https://www.ietfjournal.org/ietf-support-for-ipv6-deployment/
There is a working group mailing list where you might get an answer:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ipv6/about/
Seminars on IPv6 that may be of interest:
http://www.industrynetcouncil.org/past-webinars https://industrynetcouncil.org/webinars
IANA seems to manage IPv6:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-address-space.xhtml
There being no end-user IPv6 mailing list, it seems possible to set one up.
I’d hoped that DSLReports would have a dedicated sub-forum but no luck. But I did discover that Reddit has one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/
Meanwhile, I found the right search expression for what I want. IPv6
redundant routing. Further refined by searching for “first hop”. I doubt the ISP gateway has any support but it’s something to ask for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Router_Redundancy_Protocol
And a related article that turned up in my search:
https://packetlife.net/blog/2011/apr/18/ipv6-neighbor-discovery-high-availability/