6rd

My ISP (Telia) doesn’t do native IPv6 yet (like most ISPs unfortunately). However, they do support something called IPv6 Rapid Deployment, also known as 6rd. What it does is fairly simply, it encodes in the information you get from your ISP during a DHCPv4 chat the information needed to set up a 6to4 tunnel with an endpoint provided by your ISP. Getting native v6 would be the best but this is probably the closest I’m going to get in a while.

I recently moved to a new place (because the rental market is cray cray here). Despite how annoying it is to move around a benefit of the new place is that it has fiber so I wasted no time and got a connection from Telia. I plugged in the ISP shipped router and while browsing through the admin interface I noticed an IPv6 address showed up. All excited I checked my devices but no one was getting v6 addresses assigned.