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Right now, I have a home network setup behind a Netgear router. That router has a public IP address I get from Comcast. I also have a computer setup on my home network running Linux that runs a DHCP Server and a DNS server. The DHCP server automatically hands out internal IP addresses in the 192.168.0.xxx block. The DHCP server tells clients to use that internal DNS server, and also registers a DNS name and search suffix so I can connect to other computers by name without typing in an IP address.
If I wanted to switch over to IPv6 (as soon as Comcast supports it), I'm wondering what all needs to change.
Obviously, I need to make sure my cable modem supports IPv6 or buy a new one. I have a fairly new Netgear router, so it probably supports IPv6 or can be made to via a firmware upgrade.
However, I believe I would no longer use IPv4 internal addresses and instead get a block of IPv6 addresses from Comcast. Obviously, I don't want to be typing in IPv6 addresses to connect to other computers on my home network. I believe this means I would still want to run a DNS server at home, and I'd want to configure these settings via DHCP which would mean running my own DHCP server as I do now.
I think the ideal setup would be to keep my current configuration, but configure my DHCP server to obtain public IPv6 addresses from my ISP rather than use a hard coded block of IPv4 addresses. Is this possible to do?
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Related: Is there any benefit to using IPv6 on my home network?. But not-constructive IMO.
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2012-06-06T19:19:52.203