On 3/26/25 14:00, Andrew Latham via NANOG wrote:
Today yet another ISP is running Fiber in the utility easement at the
street. I checked and they do not offer IPv6 or have ANY IPv6 peering.
I have offered the hard to find IPv6 Legacy Warning stickers on my
Redbubble profile. About a month before any meeting or event I see a bulk
order for Amish IPv6 stickers designed by Phil Benchoff and hard to find
post Google+. I have the markup/profit set to the lowest setting and have
made maybe $8 over 5+ years.
Linky:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Legacy-IP-Warning-by-gringomalvado/38585698.EJUG5
Ranting a bit as I have four ISPs boxes at the street and two of them do
not have IPv6 in 2025. Converting my frustration into finding Phil and
sending him some coffee money.
Until consumers care, bulk-subscriber driven residential ISPs probably
won't care. They have to provide IPv4 anyway, and most of the startups
are stuck running CGNAT to do it already, so IPv6 is just another
operational hassle for them.
I don't like it, but it's the way it is.
The major content providers could do a fair bit on this front. They
could start by supporting IPv6 at all (sadly many don't), and for those
that do support IPv6 (which is a lot of them - and thank you!), they
could nudge their customers into getting it enabled on the grounds that
it may improve their experience (which is true since it can and usually
will bypass overloaded CGNATs).
OTOH, I just had an issue where I ended up disabling IPv6 for a customer
and improving their all-important speed test metrics by 50% across the
board to all test providers who support IPv6. My peering is pretty
symmetric, but I assume their (older but far from obsolete) router has
hardware offload for IPv4 but not IPv6 since that seems to be the
bottleneck in all cases. Obviously I could tell them to get a new
router, but we know how that's going to end.
--
Brandon Martin
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