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

IPB171 - IPv6 Basics - Routing

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. Take a listen here: