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Unique IPv6 prefix per host [pdf]

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Re: Unique IPv6 prefix per host [pdf]

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For anyone interested in playing with IPv6 I recommend Vultr their routing seems to work instantly, where other providers seem to have some churn. On Linode for example once I start actually using more than ~100 IPv6 endpoints it starts forgetting the previous ones for a few minute at a time. Vultr does proper prefix routing it seems.

And Digital Ocean IPv6 is broken as well. My droplet has a /64, but there's only a /124 back to my droplet.

Discussion here

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

Re: Unique IPv6 prefix per host [pdf]

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For anyone interested in playing with IPv6 I recommend Vultr their routing seems to work instantly, where other providers seem to have some churn. On Linode for example once I start actually using more than ~100 IPv6 endpoints it starts forgetting the previous ones for a few minute at a time. Vultr does proper prefix routing it seems.

And Digital Ocean IPv6 is broken as well. My droplet has a /64, but there's only a /124 back to my droplet. Discussion here https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

It's not broken per-se - the /64 you're seeing is probably the /64 next to your IP address. But that's just the size of the subnet your droplet is on, just like a system having '192.168.1.8/24' doesn't imply that all of the 192.168.1.* addresses route to that system

But apart from that, IPv6 at DO is indeed pretty useless without floating ip support - I'm still not able to use IPv6 on the droplet for application that need failover

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