IPv6 from scratch - the very basics of IPv6 explained

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  • The basics of IPv6, IPv6 addresses, IPv6 scopes - kind of IPv6 for dummies ;-) I took a looong IPv6 course on Udemy in order to learn the very basics of IPv6 - but - I was struggling with it. Until I feed up my mind and forgot everything I knew about IPv4 - from then on I was able to learn IPv6 from scratch ;-)
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    0:00 I struggled with udemy
    0:56 The plan: forget everything you know about IPv4
    1:15 Let's design addresses
    4:00 We design Protocols (UDP, TCP, ICMP)
    5:44 How do we "bootstrap" IPv6 (SLAAC)
    6:20 Let's go larger (Scopes)
    7:45 How to determine scope (Address ranges)
    9:49 What if the scope changes? (multiple addresses)
    10:46 Networks (subnetting, prefixe, delegation)
    13:03 Some IPv6 tools
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 416

  • @crazylio
    @crazylio Рік тому +122

    Finally, a good introduction to IPv6. Systematically walking through the development process makes it all come together very nicely at the end. looking forward for more brilliant videos on IPv6 from you!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hi Lionel, many thanks for your feedback. There will be a follow up.

  • @alienJIZ1990
    @alienJIZ1990 6 місяців тому +2

    Thank you. For years I've only ever seen "Enable it vs. Disable it" with all kinds of myths. Nice to finally have an explanation!

  • @montesmakes
    @montesmakes 2 дні тому

    I haven't watched the whole video yet but I love the idea behind your approach.

  • @aubreyadams7884
    @aubreyadams7884 Рік тому +44

    As a network instructor for many years (decades even!) I totally endorse your approach to describing IPv6 - do NOT try to compare its features with IPv4. It is a new protocol. Loved the address scope explanation. One thing though - it is still the same old UDP and TCP - regardless of the Network layer protocol. Looking forward to your explanation of anycast - that often causes students difficulty (mostly because they try to compare it to broadcast.)

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +9

      Many thanks Aubrey! W/r to anycast, my preferred analogy is calling the emergency number- you always call the same number but you would land in a different call center depending on the network you place the call from and the time of the day ;-)

    • @roostercrab
      @roostercrab Рік тому +1

      He's right though, there's is no TCPv6 or UDPv6. What you're referencing is the field that occurs in the IPv4 and IPv6 header that indicates *what type* of layer 4 header *follows* after the IPv4/v6 header. TCP and UDP are the same for either one.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +3

      Absolutely! I don’t contradict ;-) The only reason I emphasize on udpv6 and tcpv6 is to build context for the importance of icmp for the ipv6 protocol ;-)

    • @forbiddenera
      @forbiddenera Рік тому +1

      Personally I feel like the addressing part is not that complicated and not that different from IPv4. IP address of a certain number of bits with a subnet mask of a certain number of bits (cidr) is all the same just longer addresses.
      The explanation of scopes is good though and important but also this is not too dissimilar to rc1918 addresses.
      The part I think that a lot of people get confused about is routing, how it happens and why as well as different configuration setups besides SLAAC, like DHCPv6, RA/router advertisements, prefix delegation and interface tracking.
      A lot of people are used to thinking in terms of NAT which is why I don't disagree with this approach but even without comparison or even mentioning it might be important to stress especially for home users who are used to having to forward ports that this isn't a thing. No forwarding ports, instead you block ports with a firewall on the router or local machine. I'm not sure a lot of people fully understand with IPv6 and a typical home router that their pc is now directly accessible on the public internet instead of hiding behind a NAT (which isn't a firewall - it just doesn't know where to send incoming traffic unless you tell it)..
      While I understand this is an introduction, I had to understand all of that when setting up my own home network even.
      Though I still don't understand why I can't seem to track or delegate to my 2nd WAN interface, only get one /56 over dhcp and I can't ask for several smaller prefixes or seem to delegate a /64 or something to secondary wan..works fine for lan interfaces though.. not a huge deal but my ocd doesn't like seeing an adapter with unassigned address.

    • @sperrfeuer4158
      @sperrfeuer4158 9 місяців тому

      @@forbiddenera
      > with IPv6 and a typical home router that their pc is now directly accessible on the public internet
      that obviously depends on the router, I'm not sure what you mean by "a typical home router" but all the ones I've encountered do not allow incoming traffic by default, as should be true for any network device that isn't garbage.

  • @ciaduck
    @ciaduck 2 місяці тому +2

    The best set of IPv6 videos on youtube. Thanks for the clear and concise explainer. Most stop at a simple explanation of "what is IPv6". You actually explain how to use it. I was finally able to set up IPv6 on my network.

  • @remyzandwijk
    @remyzandwijk Рік тому +11

    This is the most clean explanation of IPv6 I’ve ever seen. You are killing it Marc, thanks!

  • @ErnestGWilsonII
    @ErnestGWilsonII 10 місяців тому

    Thank you for making this video and sharing it with all of us! I have been putting off learning IPv6 for a long time now. This was exactly the correct video for me to find and get motivated to get back into learning this. I am of course, subscribe with notifications turned on, and that was it up.

  • @bearhntr928
    @bearhntr928 7 місяців тому

    ABSOLUTELY the best one of these I have ever watched...and there have been 100s. I love how you break it all down, and I too struggle with differentiating IPv4 and IPv6. I am still struggling with IPv6 (in my home with pfSense as router and a Windows 2019 server ADDS/DNS/DHCP setup). I cannot get that server to hand out addresses (well I can - but they cannot get to the Internet over IPv6 only (every test site I visit shows IPv6 failures). Looking forward to your other videos, and maybe I can figure this out. 👍

  • @matthewcheetham2252
    @matthewcheetham2252 9 місяців тому

    This was really helpful. Building it up was a great way to help me understand why it is the way it is!

  • @ColdScarecrow
    @ColdScarecrow Рік тому +1

    Every single video you make…. They help me a lot with my network understanding. Thank you very much for all the effort you take doing them!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Ben, I am honestly and fundamentally happy each time someone tells me that my videos could help them to achieve something. Thanks a lot for your friendly feedback.

  • @manojcmenon
    @manojcmenon Рік тому +19

    Excellent introduction to IPv6. I really hope that you will follow this up with many more topics like dual stack, firewalling and others (like VLANs) that an average person needs to understand when creating a small office or home IPv6 network. We are more than happy for you to do this as part of the next OpenWRT episode.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +3

      Hi Manoj, the topics that you mention are definitely the right ones - I'd add to these: Unicast, Anycast, Multicast (Router solicitation, Router Advertisement, Duplicate Address detection), NDP ;-) Thanks for the feedback !!!

  • @oaguilarm
    @oaguilarm Рік тому +7

    Thank you Marc. Your video helped me to turn the fear, to something that looked very strange, into a will to delve further into it to learn something new. With your guidance, I am ready to take that journey and learn along from your future videos about this topic.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +2

      Hi, that's great feedback, many thanks. I experienced exactly the same. It was a great unknown until I took all my courage and stepped into that course. And after all now I realize that it is fun. I'll definitely do follow ups.

    • @oaguilarm
      @oaguilarm Рік тому

      @@OneMarcFifty thanks

  • @JuanCarlosHerediaMayer
    @JuanCarlosHerediaMayer 7 місяців тому

    Great introduction for the IPv6 world. Thanks for sharing.

  • @thj9760
    @thj9760 5 місяців тому +1

    My boss tasked me to “git gud” on ipv6. And I’m so happy this was the first video I chose to watch.

  • @volkervitt
    @volkervitt Рік тому +2

    Another great video from you. I'm really looking forward to upcomming videos about IPv6.

  • @raywoodward1967
    @raywoodward1967 Рік тому +10

    This is an absolutely excellent video and in my opinion it's a must-watch for anyone starting out on IPv6. I can honestly say that if I'd been able to watch this 15 minute introduction when I first looked at IPv6 it would have saved me many many many hours of going back and forth through text books trying to get my head around the concepts - and your approach to explaining it is brilliant, and I totally get what my problem has been until now in learning IPv6 - I was always trying to find an IPv4 analogy! Your video has got me over that hurdle, explained what the fundamentals are and what I should always keep in mind. It's made understanding and mastering the conceptual basis of v6 so much easier. Keep up the good work and I say that as one very Patreon patron!👌👍😄

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Ray, first off - thank you very much for being a patron!!! I am so glad that so many people seem to like the video (at least from what I read in the comments) - it looks like disconnecting from IPv4 is really the key for everyone here. Many thanks for the friendly feedback!

  • @alexf3946
    @alexf3946 Рік тому +2

    Amazing way to simply everything! Can’t wait for the next video!

  • @trebortech
    @trebortech Рік тому +2

    Nice job. Thank you for putting this together and sharing. IPv6 is much clearer for me.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Robert. Awesome - I am glad it could help.

  • @dleivam
    @dleivam Рік тому +6

    Awesome video. I'm impressed with your teaching skills, making a hard topic easy to understand. It requires a lot of preparation. Many thanks.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi David, thank you very much- yes, it does require preparation.

  • @henriquearroxelas1510
    @henriquearroxelas1510 10 місяців тому

    Awesome video. I've finally started to understand ipv6 🎉

  • @samuraijaydee
    @samuraijaydee Рік тому +4

    Thank you Marc for this! Very helpful! I look forward to your IPV6 episode on OPENWRT, it would be super useful to see how to correctly impalement that at home.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Thank you very much! I'll need to plan this episode - i've got some ideas but I'll probably set up a whole IPv6 test lab for that. I'll be back ;-)

  • @fengqingliu5822
    @fengqingliu5822 6 місяців тому

    Thank you thank you thank you!!! Such a clear and well explained video!

  • @tomkaiser
    @tomkaiser Рік тому +2

    Well explained from scratch, thank you Marc. Good approach in asking us to forget what we know about IPv4 and in the end, after all is as clear as muddy water, I would say IPv6 is still quite similar to IPv4

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hi Thomas - yes it is after all. Just people (including myself of course) tend to be "mentally stuck" in NAT. WE tend to forget that NAT is a workaround and that it is not Firewall ;-)

  • @orsettogommoso
    @orsettogommoso Рік тому +1

    Amazing content as usual, I was waiting for this one! :)

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hi Marco, many thanks. Glad you liked it.

  • @TheBelcherMan
    @TheBelcherMan 5 місяців тому +1

    First off let's say brilliant video. Crazy that I'm celebrating my 25th year as a tipple CCIE and I still have never used it. That's going to change today.
    Wife is born in raised in Kassel in Hesse, go at least 5 times a year from the US. Such an amazing county, love it! Father-in-law was a helicopter pilot in the Bundeswehr, holds all sorts of stunt pilot records it's just insane, and the coolest man ever. He flew me under a bridge one day at 300km/h at 10 Meters from the water, about had to change my shorts. Was based at Heeresflugplatz Fritzlar, to us US folks Fritzlar Air Base, home of the Attack Helicopter Regiment 36. The stuff he showed me there was just mind blowing. Thanks again for starting me on my journey.

    • @peterboil4064
      @peterboil4064 4 місяці тому

      Flying under a bridge is to IPv6 what apples are to oranges. Not even oranges. More like dust bin cover screws. Duuuude!

  • @WSS_the_OG
    @WSS_the_OG Рік тому +2

    Tremendous! Absolutely fantastic presentation. You're one heck of a great presenter!

  • @dmibnmg
    @dmibnmg Рік тому +3

    Excellent and entertaining explanations. Thanks!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Many thanks Jörg - glad you liked it ;-)

  • @philipherlihy3119
    @philipherlihy3119 10 місяців тому

    Superbly clear - thanks!

  • @aaronpower8741
    @aaronpower8741 Рік тому +8

    The key realisation for me was around the fact that hosts will almost always have multiple IPv6 addresses. Of course we could always have multiple addresses in IPv4 as well, but it was typically the exception rather than the rule. In IPv6, everything has multiple addresses.
    I also have a /56 prefix delegation from my ISP, and I've enjoyed the challenge of setting this up on my pfSense based firewall / router. Compared to the 1 I(public) Pv4 address , the numbers of IPv6 addresses I get is just staggering!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +2

      Hi Aaron - I went through exactly the same experience here. When I saw the many IPv6 addresses on my laptop the first time it totally freaked me out. And - as you say - the size of the address space is just overwhelming ;-)

    • @Jamesaepp
      @Jamesaepp Рік тому +2

      "Of course we could always have multiple addresses in IPv4 as well, but it was typically the exception rather than the rule."
      Not entirely true. Your host always has 127.0.0.1 - though that's a bit cheeky.
      What's less cheeky is if a NIC is configured with address 192.0.2.1/24, it can receive/listen for messages destined to 192.0.2.255 (local broadcast). While not particularly obvious, your host has multiple IP addresses. It just doesn't really send with the broadcast address as source.
      Your IPv4 host also uses another address - 0.0.0.0. This one comes into play specifically for DHCP. If you look at the source address of a DHCP discover packet, you'll see this as the source address.
      In fact there's nothing stopping you from say, booting up a host on a network without DHCP (or disabling the DHCP client), grabbing an IPv4 link-local address (APIPA), configuring that statically on the interface, and then re-enabling DHCP for an additional address.

    • @Bunny99s
      @Bunny99s Рік тому +1

      @@Jamesaepp "Your host always has 127.0.0.1"
      It's actually more than you think ^^. Even though IPv4 has such a limited address space, they dedicated a whole class A net to the local host, not just a single address. 127.0.0.1 is just the most commonly used and is usually mapped locally to "localhost". However 127.45.12.42 is also a local loopback address. The entire 127 net is local loopback. So 1/256th of the whole v4 address space is wasted. In IPv6 they decided that a single address is enough. If you need more, you can always assign more, but it's not implicit.
      Note that (0.0.0.0) is not really an address, it's merely a wildcard for the whole network to indicate no particular address. As you may know, when binding a socket, you can either bind it to a local address that the socket should listen to, or bind it to (0.0.0.0). That means the socket would be bound to all local addresses. In other words if a packet arrives at your NIC, it doesn't really care what the destination address is. Since it arrived at your NIC, it's meant for you.
      A lot servers by default bind to (0.0.0.0) so they accept any packets, no matter to which IP they were directed to. However explicit binding is needed if you want to run several servers on the same machine on the same port. You just need to bind each it to different local addresses. Locally you can bind servers to different local host addresses and it would work fine, locally. So you can run a server on 127.0.0.1:5555 and one on 127.0.0.2:5555. Of course you can only connect to those two servers locally, so this is just an example. Though If you bind a server to (0.0.0.0), you can't bind another socket to the same port as it 0.0.0.0 binds to all addresses. A single end point (IP + protocol + port) can only be used / bound once.

  • @roymassart1832
    @roymassart1832 Рік тому +2

    Powerful explanation! Thank you! Much clearer now

  • @VK1HF
    @VK1HF Місяць тому

    Great video mate, really well done.

  • @yoyoyuyu234476
    @yoyoyuyu234476 2 місяці тому

    very good👍
    I was wondering how to play with ipv6 on my network and this helps a lot.

  • @user-xj9kx8wq1r
    @user-xj9kx8wq1r 3 місяці тому

    Thank you!! Very informative and fun to watch :)

  • @zahras1492
    @zahras1492 Рік тому +1

    That was excellent! Thank you very much for this walkthrough.

  • @cyndicorinne
    @cyndicorinne Рік тому +1

    It definitely was the best explanation of the protocol I have seen.

  • @StephanKasasa
    @StephanKasasa Рік тому +1

    This is a great intro to IPv6. Thank you!

  • @naveensubramaniam9999
    @naveensubramaniam9999 Рік тому +1

    Great video! Kudos for the cheat sheet style approach ✨.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Many thanks Naveen. I really wanted to give viewers something to take away. Also I admit that I wanted to do a bit of publicity for my github repos ;-)

  • @MrWadezz
    @MrWadezz 11 місяців тому

    This is actually a very good explaination of ipv6 thanks !

  • @benidiktuskurniawan9986
    @benidiktuskurniawan9986 Рік тому +1

    This is great explanation, took out IPv4 concept is really helping to understand IPv6 concept

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Many thanks for the feedback, benediktus

  • @puneitsingh
    @puneitsingh Рік тому +2

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

  • @TradersTradingEdge
    @TradersTradingEdge Рік тому +1

    Thanks Mark, fantastic explanation.🖖

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Thank you very much - I am glad you liked it.

  • @brucefox6580
    @brucefox6580 Рік тому +1

    Hi Marc, Great explanation. You are righ, it helps to forget IPV4 and start over :) Thank you.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Bruce, many thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear that I am not the only person making that experience ;-)

  • @Dygear
    @Dygear Рік тому +1

    This was very helpful, thank you. I might even be able to start using the IPV6 settings on my router.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Mark, that’s great. There will be episodes on how to use it with routers. At least for OpenWrt and maybe for OPNSense/pfSense

  • @torinstorkey
    @torinstorkey Рік тому +2

    Excellent video. Extremely helpful.

  • @AsadRehman-xf4hq
    @AsadRehman-xf4hq 6 місяців тому

    This guy is a genius MashAllah what an explanation and how he describe step by step that's wonderful. Amazing, Bravo!! I want a teacher like you, please make more videos on IPV6 Thanks for the good knowledge and explaination.

  • @CHR0n0Z-fu8ob
    @CHR0n0Z-fu8ob Рік тому +3

    03:40 and 3:58 Please note you always HAVE TO shorten the longest run of consecutive 16bit 0 fields, therefore FF:0:0:0:1::1 would be wrong too.
    When the length of the consecutive 16-bit 0 fields are equal, the first sequence of zero bits MUST be shortened.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +2

      Hi Adrian, I was not aware of this. Is there any official documentation on this ?

    • @CHR0n0Z-fu8ob
      @CHR0n0Z-fu8ob Рік тому +4

      @@OneMarcFifty Hi Marc, yes there is. Feel free to have a look at RFC 5952 section 4.2

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +4

      Thank you - just checked it. It is explicit and states MUST. It even goes further and says that a..f MUST be written in lowercase!

  • @tomduca
    @tomduca Рік тому +1

    Mark this is simply awesome! Thank you very much!! Looking forward for the OpenWrt IPv6 implementation video :D

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Tomás - thank you so much for your feedback. Yes - I am already planning follow ups - just need to make up my mind which one to do first ;-)

  • @touchdownbroncos
    @touchdownbroncos 5 місяців тому

    Going to learn IPV6 for future reference. For now, I have two lan adaptors on both my desktop and laptop. On each machine, I have one adaptor handling IPV4, and the other handling IPV6. The adaptors handling the IPV6 are ALWAYs moving more data than the IPV4. Almost twice as much sometimes. Anyone hating on IPV6 better get with it. Its more prominent than you think. I have Starlink as an ISP.

  • @njaneardude
    @njaneardude 4 місяці тому

    Finally a IPV6 fundamentals that kept my attention 😄👍💯

  • @ahmedshabrawy8456
    @ahmedshabrawy8456 7 місяців тому

    Thank you much for the easy simplified way of delivering that content
    I do recommend you to teach on udemy your courses will be very good add to the tech community

  • @sandravaldez9088
    @sandravaldez9088 Рік тому +1

    Simple method, many thanks for sharing

  • @stuarttelford7063
    @stuarttelford7063 Рік тому +1

    Very clear tutorial. Thanks 👍

  • @EricHansenHaiTech
    @EricHansenHaiTech Рік тому +3

    Great explanation! I'd love to see a primer on .local TLDs in the IPv6 world

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Eric, interesting topic! I would need to run experiments myself for this, haven't tested it yet - this seems to be a good primer: stevessmarthomeguide.com/multicast-dns/

  • @arneschroder2033
    @arneschroder2033 Рік тому +1

    Awesome explenation, helped me a lot

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Thank you Arne, glad you could use it!

  • @Sydney268
    @Sydney268 Рік тому +1

    Learned a lot from your videos, loving the way you say host 😂

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi, that's very kind of you - thank you very much. It's only after that video and people leaving comments that I realized I had been saying it wrong for over 30 years ;-)

  • @davidvillasmil1468
    @davidvillasmil1468 10 місяців тому

    Very nice intro, thanks!

  • @Anonymouzee
    @Anonymouzee Рік тому +1

    Finally a comprehensive explanation...
    hope you had underlined/marked the digits when talking about subnetting for easy visualization...
    waiting for your video explaining why broadcast is not anymore... and how anycast mechanism works along the route in the intermediate nodes...
    ;-)

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hey, thanks so much for your feedback. True, I should have visualized subnetting more. The follow up episode is available on my channel page btw ;-)

  • @itildude
    @itildude Рік тому +1

    Super helpful. Thank you!

  • @hiyoshi177
    @hiyoshi177 Рік тому +1

    Another video with marc, making easy the hard things.

  • @rfrancoi
    @rfrancoi 4 місяці тому

    That was amazing; thank you Sir.

  • @ediahmadfauziserbhaneka9946
    @ediahmadfauziserbhaneka9946 Рік тому +1

    Thank you so much bro. Sending virtual hugs. Worked like a charm ;-)

  • @alfarahat
    @alfarahat 5 місяців тому

    You deserve more than like, thank you

  • @interscopezz990
    @interscopezz990 Рік тому +1

    good work king, love you

  • @JB-tz9pi
    @JB-tz9pi Рік тому +1

    Your introduction was spot on. It's still frustrating to me and shutdown ipv6 as much as i can in my home because of it. My modem has a IPv6 address but I have IPv4 on my WAN port. I don't think I need v6 on my LAN. It would just be a learning tool if anything.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi J B, yes - I totally agree - the fun is limited if you only get it LAN-side ;-(

  • @richarddinel4762
    @richarddinel4762 Рік тому +1

    nice .just what i was waiting for.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Awesome, many thanks Richard - glad it helped ;-)

  • @sovitloomba3768
    @sovitloomba3768 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely perfect 👍

  • @ChrisAthanas
    @ChrisAthanas Рік тому +1

    Great explanation

  • @redpurple1035
    @redpurple1035 4 місяці тому

    thank you for teaching me sir. 🎈🙂❤👍🎈

  • @mdiaztoledo
    @mdiaztoledo Рік тому +1

    Very interesting topic as always ^^

  • @ArztvomDienst
    @ArztvomDienst Рік тому +1

    Wondering if its the same course I started months ago but after the header stuff and the mass of special address spaces eventualy forgot about xD
    I watched alot of the paid courses on Udemy and LinkinLearning the past 3 years, and like Prof Messer here on YT, your videos and the way you present dense highly technical content in an understandable maner, for free, is nothing short of amazing and I thank you for doing so!
    Some say you best learn IPv6 by turning off IPv4 on your network and start from there ;)

  • @adityavarma2138
    @adityavarma2138 5 днів тому

    Awesome!! Thanks 🙏

  • @nikolaishields498
    @nikolaishields498 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Marc!😀

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      You're welcome Nikolai - thank you for watching!

  • @euxheniodragoj2806
    @euxheniodragoj2806 Рік тому +1

    I made it finally, I forgot IPv4!!
    Great content, still having some doubts though. See you on Discord ;)

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Euxhenio - great to hear ;-) But don't forget to remember it again in the end ;-)

  • @michabaszynski3337
    @michabaszynski3337 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Marc!

  • @tommsla123
    @tommsla123 Рік тому +1

    Nice video.Thank you

  • @matthewhickok4421
    @matthewhickok4421 Рік тому +1

    Ah... Great video. I knew I would have to learn this stuff one day. So far my ISP has not implemented IPv6 yet... but I live in Wyoming.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Matthew - I think we are all the same ;-) We know we have to do this one day ;-)

  • @pratikfandade6521
    @pratikfandade6521 Рік тому +1

    This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.

  • @alexs5588
    @alexs5588 Рік тому +1

    Marc, great video thank you so much for the break down of IPv6. Would you ever consider making a video on OpenNDS?

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hi Alex, i’ll give this a long thought but presumably this is not going to happen soon. There are a bunch of videos that I need to make before. Even though a captive portal is an interesting matter!

  • @technerd9655
    @technerd9655 10 місяців тому

    Thank you for these IPv6 videos. One thing I can't get my head around is my perception that there is a lack of privacy. For example, when you browse to a website, does the website see the complete IPv6 address for the client, or just the WAN portion assigned by the ISP? Does the ISP know what devices you have on your LAN? How do you handle port forwarding? I assume you would still need to open ports on your router's firewall and on your client's software firewall.
    All of these privacy related questions are fairly simple in IPv4, although, I do understand they are byproducts of NAT, which apparently is a bad thing (though I like it for network segregation and privacy). What am I missing here with IPv6? Why do the LAN clients even need to be aware of the WAN IP from the ISP?

  • @didikohen455
    @didikohen455 Рік тому +1

    I thought of taking that Udemy course (the 17h one, right?) to understand some of the differences from IPv4 that despite managing IP networks from the late 90s and using IPv6 for about 3 years, I wasn't able to understand, your videos were just what I was missing, these two and the OpenWRT one!
    Thanks a lot!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hi Didi, glad you could use it! I can't remember where the course was listed - but it was long. Really long ;-)

  • @HenrikLarsson458
    @HenrikLarsson458 Рік тому +2

    Very good video!

  • @philipoakley5498
    @philipoakley5498 Рік тому +1

    Needed just a few extra words and seconds to cover the '/N' part for number of bits (counted from which end, etc.).
    Rather good.

  • @sdiax25
    @sdiax25 Рік тому +1

    Many thanks!

  • @Blond501
    @Blond501 Рік тому +1

    Thank you very very much for this explanation. You're right, you need to forget everything about V4 to understand V6. Without V6 in mind I do now understand why I got so many IPv6 Adressess on my devices.
    And good to know about Deutsche Telekom. I'm switching to this ISP in two weeks from Vodafone. Knowing my pfSense thats great knowledge :)

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Stephan, please do keep in mind that if you want to get a /56 prefix from Deutsche Telekom, then this will not work with their speedport routers (at least the one I had, don't know about the recent ones). I had to replace the Speedport with a DSL Modem ( I am using a VIGOR modem for this) in order to get full IPv6 functionality. Also lowered my ping time by 2 ms.

    • @Blond501
      @Blond501 Рік тому +1

      @@OneMarcFifty hey Marc,
      Thanks for the hint. No worries, i bought a zyxel Modem to avoid the speedports 😂

  • @BierBart12
    @BierBart12 Рік тому +1

    I just learned about the entire history of TCP and IP. From a modern corporate naming view, we'd probably name IPV4 "IP" and IPV6 "IP Pro/Advanced" as all of the old versions aren't relevant
    That aside, this video made ipv6 feel so simple. This may be one of the issues why it hasn't seen widespread commercial use yet, its immediate scaryness lol.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi, many thanks for the feedback - yes, you may see a lot of strong opinions on IPv6 in other comments here - I do agree it is more a human subject than a technological one that prevents adoption ;-) But I don't want to sound smarty-pants here because I felt exactly the same before ;-)

  • @pgotze
    @pgotze Рік тому +1

    How to make fun from crazy IPv6 mess :-) Good job.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Thanks Pavel. Yes - as there is so much info floating around everywhere - that was the reason I decided to take that course. I never had to use IPv6 and could safely ignore it. But that left the "there is space to be discovered" voice in my head ;-)

  • @michaeldina1103
    @michaeldina1103 Рік тому +2

    Fantastic! I really enjoyed the video. Would you consider doing a SLAAC vs dhcpv6 video as well?

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      We will have a deeper look into a couple of things in a follow up video. I just need to think over if I‘ll do that as a generic video or rather related to OpenWrt

  • @largefish8417
    @largefish8417 Рік тому +1

    Excellent!

  • @nicksmith4507
    @nicksmith4507 Рік тому +1

    Excellent clarity of thought as always. Still waiting for Virgin Media/UK to implement IPv6...

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Nick, many thanks for the friendly comment. Yes - when I launched my "IPv6 only" testlab I realized how bad the coverage is really. ISPs, content providers, CDNs - there's still a lot of room of improvement left ;-)

  • @fastmover45
    @fastmover45 Рік тому +1

    Mark you are a legend

  • @YoutuberSupportCenter
    @YoutuberSupportCenter Рік тому +1

    Great Sir ❤👌👌👌👍

  • @thehouseofsound6501
    @thehouseofsound6501 Рік тому +1

    Works well!! DANKEEE

  • @FozIrenics
    @FozIrenics Рік тому +1

    great video. just great

  • @Fakts27
    @Fakts27 Рік тому +1

    Thank you very much :D

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi Nils, you're welcome - thanks for the feedback ;-)

  • @James_Knott
    @James_Knott Рік тому +1

    About local LANs, while some protocols do use link local addresses, most apps still use GUA or ULA addresses. However, they don't pass through the router. They communicate directly. You can see this by monitoring traffic with Wireshark. Also, when link local addresses are used, it is often necessary to specify which interface is to be used.
    GUA addresses can start with 2 or 3, but I don't know that 3 is used yet.
    A single /64 subnet, which is the only size allowed for a LAN, contains 18.4 billion, billion addresses.
    As mentioned, a /56 prefix is often provided. I have one of those, but some ISPs provide a /48, which is 256x larger. There are enough GUA addresses to give each and every person on earth over 4000 /48s!
    BTW, I have been running IPv6 on my own LAN for over 12 years. At first, it did take some getting used to. But now I have become the IPv6 expert in some forums. The sooner we can abandon IPv4, the better!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Hi James, I believe that I have seen your name pop up in some of the IPv6 related forums / questions a couple of times. Great to see you here ! Many thanks for the feedback ;-) You are right with everything you say - there are so many IPv6 address spaces - I realize how difficult it is for a human being to grasp exponential models ;-) Also - if I think about people trying to use IPv6 with a single /128 address - that's so disappointing because it makes it impossible for them to discover the real beauty of it ;-(

    • @James_Knott
      @James_Knott Рік тому

      @@OneMarcFifty Quite so. A lot of people have been misled by the IPv4 address shortage and NAT, to the point they don't understand how things are supposed to work. Incidentally, customers are often provided a /128 for their WAN address. This address cannot be used for routing, as there is only one device supported by it. Even a point to point link must be at least a /127, allowing for 2 devices. A /128 is only used to identify an interface, with routing typically done with a link local address.
      BTW, If you really want to get into IPv6, I can recommend "IPv6 Essentials", from O'Reilly.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +2

      Many thanks for your reply and explanation James. I was thinking about making a video for an IPv6 test lab - enabling viewers to test everything in a sandbox before they go live in the real world. Some are suggesting hurricane electric as 6in4 tunnel. Any opinion on this?

    • @James_Knott
      @James_Knott Рік тому +2

      @@OneMarcFifty I started out with a 6in4 tunnel, in May 2010, and it worked well. I wasn't with Hurricane Electric, but I understand they're about the largest tunnel provider. My own ISP started providing native IPv6 almost 7 years ago, but provided 6to4 and 6rd tunnels for a couple of years before that. So, including a 6in4 tunnel would be a good idea, as many are still stuck on an ISP that doesn't provide IPv6.

  • @damaliamarsi2006
    @damaliamarsi2006 Рік тому +2

    I love IPV6, which I think is just better.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому +1

      Hi Damalia, I have learnt to love it as well ;-)

  • @abhishekkachala3543
    @abhishekkachala3543 10 місяців тому

    Thank you

  • @tariqosman5811
    @tariqosman5811 6 місяців тому

    Awesome 🎉🎉🎉🎉👌👍👍

  • @supernenechi
    @supernenechi Рік тому +2

    I like the look of IPv6 addresses and prefer them over IPv4 actually!

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      don't judge an address by its look would be the lesson to me then ;-)

  • @AwesomeFanie
    @AwesomeFanie Рік тому +2

    Thank you! I’m very curious if one would use 2 VLANs, one setup as v6 only and another v4 only for your local devices if the speeds etc would be same? Also wandering if your local network is v6 only, if your ISP router could act as a ‘v4 gateway’ to the internet.

    • @OneMarcFifty
      @OneMarcFifty  Рік тому

      Wow - haven’t thought about this - I would have to take a closer look