On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, John Mann <john.mann@monash.edu> wrote:
I didn't realise this before, but all the Hetzner dedicated servers and vServer packages include a full IPv6 /64 subnet.
ip -6 addr add $PREFIX::1/64 dev xenbr0 ip route add default via fe80::1 dev xenbr0 You put something like the above in /etc/network/interfaces or whatever to configure addresses on Hetzner. Note that something different will be needed on other ISPs.
Some other hosting companies provide something smaller, e.g. Digital Ocean only allows 16 IPv6 addresses per VM (presumably out of a /64 shared with many other VMs).
That would be profiteering, allocate only a few and charge extra for more addresses. An ISP that had a single /64 shared with all it's customers could easily allocate a /96 to every customer and never run out - no ISP is likely to get 2^32 customers. http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean-finds-itself- back-in-security-trouble/ But I think Digital Ocean has bigger issues than a lack of IPv6 addresses. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/