Based on another “IPv6 is bad” post on mastodon I diced it’s finally time:
Fund me to produce an IPv6 related tutorial series on YouTube, accompanied by blog posts, slides, labs and contributions to other projects, e.g. https://github.com/becarpenter/book6/
It’s been a while but I just update the IPv6-Resources list on gitlab.
When you search the internet on how to use net-snmp with IPv6 most of the examples you’ll find look like this:
snmpwalk -v2c -c lab udp6:[3fff:172:20:20::5] | head -1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Arista Networks EOS version 4.35.0F-44178984.4350F (engineering build) running on an Arista cEOSLab"
TIL: Apparently since version 5.7 you can just use
snmpwalk -v2c -c lab 3fff:172:20:20::5 | head -1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Arista Networks EOS version 4.35.0F-44178984.4350F (engineering build) running on an Arista cEOSLab"
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
But it has to look, swim, and quack like a duck. If it only does one or two, it might be something else entirely.
Almost two years ago I opened a ticket on GitHub because I couldn’t (and still can’t) install packages via pip on an IPv6-only host with an IPv6-only resolver. Fastly is used as a CDN, and the authoritative DNS servers involved simply don’t have AAAA records. It’s just a matter of switching to a different set of DNS servers.
I recently looked at a curriculum for a basic level course of a well known vendor. What struck my eye was that IPv4 basics, including classes, was pretty high on the list of topics. Then I found stuff like RIP version 1 in the list of topics an IPv6 almost at the end of the list of topics.
My calendar says it’s the End of 2025 so IPv6 should be at least as important as IPv4. IPv4 classes should only be viewed in a historical context, same as RIPv1.