Solid piece of kit, but I was extremely disappointed to learn that PA don’t support IPv6 over PPPoE. When I first embarked on this IPv6 journey I was using a PaloAlto PA-200 as my gateway device. My ISP was kind enough to provide me with a /56 subnet to play with. So for a bit of background My internet connection is ADSL and authentication is done with PPPoE (this would prove to be a slight sticking point, but we’ll get to that in a minute). But I had some fun doing it, and learnt a thing or two along the way, and isn’t that what its really all about anyway. Turns out the process wasn’t quite as simple as flicking a switch, and there was no magical checkbox I could tick to say ‘give me some IPv6, please.’ I had to work for it. So I decided it was time for me to see what all the fuss was about and flick the switch enabling IPv6 on my home network. Google is currently showing that around 25% of traffic they see is IPv6 traffic. Since World IPv6 Day on January 12th 2011, the rate of adoption has been steadily increasing. And whose idea was it to put letters in IP addresses anyway!?īut IPv6 isn’t going away. And those boffins who came up with the idea of NAT, that’s saved us all from having to worry about the ever shrinking pool of available addresses. Our networks have all been happily grinding away on IPv4.
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