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Comment by Avamander

> Which means that anybody on the internet gets to know your mac address.

Pretty sure all reasonable devices utilise privacy extensions.

> ISPs got it wrong ! I'm in Germany, tried 3 different providers, they all assign to my router a /64 subnet instead of /60 or /56 (as recommended by ARIN).

If it's wrong is subjective. If it's not a goal to upsell a business connection there might be technical limitations.

> No support for multi-homing. Example: You have two connections, a slow reliable one, and a fast unreliable one. With IPv4 you can easily setup multiwan in any proper L3 router.

Bit of a niche use-case and still very doable with NAT66.

> Captive portals: SLAAC does not directly support assigning DNS servers.

I haven't seen a captive portal that wasn't able to intercept DNS or that couldn't MITM all connections to display that page. It's a non-issue.

> So it's very easy for malicious devices to flood routing tables of switches by telling them that they own all IPv6 for the whole /64

IPv4 devices can conduct ARP spoofing, no biggie. If it's "very easy" to do either it's just poor switch software.

parent Avamander 4 years ago

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