IPv6 for home lab

posted 1 year ago

Is anybody using only IPv6 in their home lab? I keep running into weird problems where some services use only IPv6 and are “invisible” to everyone (I’m looking at you, Java!) I end up disabling IPv6 to force everything to the same protocol, but I started wondering, “why not disable IPv4 instead?” I’d have half as many firewall rules, routes and configurations. What are the risks?

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BCsven@lemmy.ca

12 points

1 year ago

When troubleshooting some network shares and other issues the remedy was disable ipv6 lol. i’m not familiar with ipv6 enough to know the pros other than more IP addresses available, but since its all on mu LAN i have no need for ipv6

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jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works

12 points

1 year ago

For your internal LAN there aren’t really any pros.

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