RS> I've never used the ISP's router's port RS> blocking/forwarding/NAT/gateway features before (for IPv4), so now I'm RS> looking what it supports. It does have DHCPv6 and DHCP-PD was RS> disabled, so I've enabled that and expecting for it to hand out RS> addresses in the range:
RS> 2600:6c88:8c40:5b::1 to ::1000 (according to its default RS> configuration)
RS> I haven't seen that happen yet.
But it has assigned 2600:6c88:8c40:5b::f5a to your Fidonet machine. Keep in mind that the "1000" is hexadecimal. "::f5a" is in the range ::1-::1000 hexadecimal.
So it seems to work as configured.
RS> I'm guessing this means I have been allocated a /64 (?).
No, that has nothing to do with the size of your prefix. I would be surprised if you only have a /64 on a business account...
RS> There are also options for Port Forwarding, Firewall, IPv6 Pin-holing,
Ah, so they cal it pin-holing. :)
That is what you need for incoming IPv6.
RS> IPv6 DMZ, but I've never used any of those (or similar) features for RS> my public IPv4 interfaces (my servers' public IPv4 network interfaces RS> are just "wide open" as far as the ISP router is concerned).
So it is in fact in bridge mode for IPv4?
>> > Still a bit mysterious to me with so many addresses and so >> > little information from the ISP. Any tips are welcome,
All the info you need from your ISP that you do not already have is the size of your IPv6 block assigned to you and if it is static or dynamic.
>> Most OSes switch ip6 addresses regularly (hence the "temporary >> ones"), so dont be surprised if the ip6 address chanes often - you >> can turn it off to have a consistent one, or assign a static >> address.
As you can see in my list of IPv6 nodes, many Fidonet sysops have assigned a ::f1d0:1:103:705 type of address for their Fidonet node.
How about outgoing connections? Have you made an outgoing IPv6 binkp connect yet? Feel free to try to connect to my system for testing.
