Apr. 18, 2025
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.
Apr. 7, 2025
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).
Mar. 23, 2025
A subject after my own heart. Continuing the IPv6 Basics series with an episode on IPv6 routing essentials. We start with a comparison of various routing protocols: RIP, OSPF, IS-IS, EGP, and BGP. We look at pros and cons of each, and discuss challenges such as dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 network implementation, memory and resource use with IPv6, and link local addresses.
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