IPv6 on Irish ISPs

Glaceon

What ISPs in Ireland are offering full dual-stack IPv4/IPv6? As in, with a public IPv4 address. The only one I know of is Eir but are there any others? It still doesn't seem to be all that essential but am curious.

Thanatus

I believe blacknight would be included also but would be happy for someone to correct me if that isn't the case.

rogue-entity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058271701/ipv6-on-irish-isps

Is Eir doing that as standard, or do you have to ask for it? Was never able to get a v6 range from them

Glaceon

On domestic connections yes. Not sure about business.

mneylon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119875809#Comment_119875809

We do offer it for sure

It's not on by default so it's just a matter of contacting us to get the details and enabling it in your router

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915276#Comment_119915276

Do you retain a public IPv4 address or is it a DS-Lite setup like on Virgin Media?

mneylon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915305#Comment_119915305

Sorry but I'm not sure I understand what you're asking - possibly because I've no idea what Virgin Media do :)

We offer a fixed IPv4 address to all broadband users. We also offer native IPv6. Our network is dual stacked.

So you'd always have both.

Does that help?

Michele

jd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119887265#Comment_119887265

eir offer it enable it by default for NGA (vdsl and ftth) customers. They don't for legacy adsl - I think it's an issue with some legacy CPEs that customers have

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915404#Comment_119915404

Thanks Michele. Good to know that you offer it!

Virgin Media tunnel IPv4 traffic over the IPv6 connection, which is effectively carrier-grade NAT with a shared IPv4 address. You can opt out but only by getting their support to disable IPv6 entirely.

mneylon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915463#Comment_119915463

Oh! No we definitely don't do that. And I can't imagine why we'd even consider it.

There are some outstanding issues with IPv6 and some content providers ie. they view the IPv4 traffic as legit, but get a little upset with IPv6 and of course there are still a load of content providers out there that haven't moved towards IPv6...