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I have IPv6 deployed at home for a few years now and it works great! I wish more places adopted it.

I have the feeling that a working IPv6 comes out of the box with most Internet providers nowadays. I used it at home for months without realizing it.

So when I started hosting a side-project I made sure it was accessible via IPv6. Skimming through logs many people connect through IPv6 as well, so I'm a bit surprised when I read that deployment is slowing down.

Hi @bhhaskin, what practical advantages do you see to running IPv6 at home? I think my ISP (Xfinity) provides it, but have not tried enabling it yet.

The biggest practical advantages are hard to say because it is a chicken before the egg issue. Having a dedicated IP address for each device is very nice. Especially if you like hosting your own services or have a home lab.

If you tend to have IPv6 at work and on mobile, you can out up multiple servers at home and reach them -- without having to use alternative ports or a port multiplexing scheme. (Provided the ISP CPE lets you actually get incoming SYNs; sometimes that's a lot harder than it should be)

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