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Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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> As it turns out inviting the entire internet to ping my IP address might not be the best idea I ever had... Bandwidth is regularly maxing out at 300Mbit/s of incoming ICMPv6 traffic

Oh, boy. I'm impressed it's still working.

Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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> As it turns out inviting the entire internet to ping my IP address might not be the best idea I ever had... Bandwidth is regularly maxing out at 300Mbit/s of incoming ICMPv6 traffic Oh, boy. I'm impressed it's still working.

I very much suspect that a lot of those ping6 packets are ignored.

At 300 Mbit/s that would be around 400000 pings per second or less than 3 μs/flash. At that speed the camera would not register individual flashes.

Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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post #6

> As it turns out inviting the entire internet to ping my IP address might not be the best idea I ever had... Bandwidth is regularly maxing out at 300Mbit/s of incoming ICMPv6 traffic Oh, boy. I'm impressed it's still working.

I very much suspect that a lot of those ping6 packets are ignored. At 300 Mbit/s that would be around 400000 pings per second or less than 3 μs/flash. At that speed the camera would not register individual flashes.

If his connection is actually saturated, he's more likely being packeted by someone trying to have fun.

Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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post #3

IPv6 keeps being a running joke. At least some people still have some sense of humour about it.

IPv6 is silently gaining a lot of steam lately. Akamai reports[1] close to 50% from comcast and att over ipv6, and 80% from verizon, 72% from t-mobile. Reliance Jio, a new mobile carrier in India is doing 47%.

[1] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-inter... (click 'networks')

Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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post #3

IPv6 keeps being a running joke. At least some people still have some sense of humour about it.

IPv6 needed to happen a decade ago. We have exhausted the IPv4 space. I feel IPv6 suffered from huge usability issues, although it can be worked around with good provisioning systems that automatically setup DNS entries.

We're going to get to the point where spinning up a VPS with an IPv4 address is going to get increasingly more and more expensive, unless we make some huge strides in moving to IPv6.

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