It all depends on what you want to do really.

I have been using IPv6 since.. 2003 or so, first using Freenet6/Hexago/Viagenie (if anyone remembers those names) and then SixxS.net.

I was fortunate to work briefly for Hexago and actually manage Freenet6 for a while.

Right now, I have almost 50% of my homelab dual stacked, and the rest is IPv6 only.

The dual stack stuff is NAT'ed, the IPv6 is behind a very simple firewall. The fact that I don't have to port-forward stuff is heaven. 

Of course the fact that 80% of the internal is still IPv4 only is annoying, but I live with it for now.

There is a way to have your internal network wholly on IPv6 and then a piece of software will do IPv6->IPv4 routing, but I found it ugly, so I stopped using it.

-nick

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm curious... how do you actually use IPv6?  I'm guessing, IPv6 will be
for public IP, and IPv4 will be for internal NAT.  No?


On 2026-04-27 14:32, James Knott via Talk wrote:
> I've had IPv6 since May 2010, at first with a 6in4 tunnel, but for the
> past 10 years or so as native from Rogers.
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