Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 2016-09-10 a las 09:58 -0400, James Knott escribió:
On 09/10/2016 08:54 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Right, my provider does not offer IPv6 to normal clients. Yes, perhaps I could get a tunnel of something from a third party, but I do not see fair doing my 300mbps through that. Lastly I have a problem with a WiFi point and the main router conflicting on who handles loacal IPv6 addresses, but I haven't bothered yet because there is none to handle.
You can always use a tunnel to get IPv6, as I did for 6 years. What does your bandwidth have to do with it? My IPv6 bandwidth was almost as good as IPv4, when I was using that tunnel. Now, with IPv6 from my ISP, my IPv6 bandwidth can be slightly better than IPv4.
It is an ethical problem. I will not route my full bandwidth via a third party just because I want IPv6. I don't want it. I'll wait till my provider provides it, if ever.
You wouldn't be routing your full bandwidth over the tunnel, only whatever IPv6 traffic you have. Which is probably less than 5%. Anyway, this is about having fun, for people who want to experiment and discover and learn. Setting up a tunnel is about learning the ropes, getting familiar with IPv6 etc. If that's not for you, that's fine.
The main problem I think people have that forces them to disable IPv6 on their installs is "slow network", or failed connections. I think the DNS tells them of a site address as an IPv6, and of course, they can not connect.
If that's what happens, then the computer thinks it has an IPv6 address beyond a link local one (starts with fe80). It will not try to use IPv6, if it doesn't see an IPv6 route off the local network. Is there something misconfigured? As I said, I've never had an issue with IPv6, even when all I had was the link local address. Perhaps if you were to learn a bit about IPv6, you'd be able to determine what the issue is. You can also fire up Wireshark, to see what's actually happening.
The computers think there is a route, via the router. Perhaps. The router refuses, obviously, as there is no such route.
If that is the case, we're back to what I said and what James suggests above - it's a network configuration issue. There's nothing wrong with openSUSE nor with IPv6, it's a simply configuration issue. If you can't fix the router, that's a pity, but it's not fair to blame IPv6 or openSUSE. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org