IPB173 - The IPv6 Test Pod Project

I was very excited for this episode. James Harr, a fellow engineer from the research and education community came up with a great project called the IPv6-Pod, which was initially funded by ARIN. It aims to provide a simple way to test software and services to see if they work in a variety of IPv6 environments, including v6-only, dual-stack, and others? This project provides a device, at no cost to the applicant, that comes with a variety of v6 test networks.

IPB172 - IPv6 SMB - Listener Questions

Listener comments and questions are always interesting. In this episode we talk through some listeners questions that have come in via the Follow Up on packetpushers.net. We cover questions regarding IPv6 for small businesses, then go even smaller and answer a question about IPv6 for home networks. Lastly, we have a quick discussion about Path MTU discovery with IPv6 (spoiler: we’re planning a whole episode on this topic in the future).

Go IPv6 utilities

After spending some time with Python, I moved to Go, which seems to suit the way my brain works slightly better (make no mistake, I am still a poor developer). Keeping in line with the work done on this, I endeavored to re-write this in Golang, mostly because the subnet generation in python had some resource issues with large blocks. And off I went. With the help of an LLM to get me past weird errors and inability to compile, the resulting code is surprisingly efficient and useful - available here