* On 2026 20 Feb 05:47 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > "Available" may have been a poor word choice. > I was thinking in terms of: > 1. what is supported by my existing hardware/configuration?
No idea as I don't know what you have. > 2. did I have an active IPv6 connection? See https://ip6.biz/ Unless you're really curious, IPv6 is not mandatory. At some point, likely post my lifetime (I'm in my early 60s), IPv4 will be deprecated, and then perhaps decades later disabled on the Internet entirely. In the mean time, most users won't need to concern themselves with IPv6. When they do, the task will fall upon ISPs to help, or the ISP have an internal IPv4 to IPv6 gateway in place, or... IPv6 traffic per Google is just under 49% as of 16 Feb: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html Large swaths of the globe aren't anywhere close to even that level of IPv6 capability: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ As an aside, I am curious about IPv6 but my ISP doesn't offer IPv6 connectivity. So I have a "6in4" tunnel with an IPv6 broker to access the Internet via IPv6. That tunnel exists between my router and the broker. My LAN is dual-stack meaning IPv6 capable devices are also capable of using IPv4. Some devices are still IPv4 only, even recently purchased cameras and a Gigabit switch. Sigh... One other thing to note, if installing home automation devices using the Matter protocol, then only IPv6 is supported by Matter. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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