I had IPv6 enabled for a few months but eventually turned it off since I wasn't confident I had configured my home network securely. When I tried asking for help, I was criticized and told that I should just read the RFCs...
Does anyone have suggestions for a beginner friendly home networking guide? How are others setting up their home network?
It's also a bit frustrating to me that routers provide so many options, yet it seems nigh impossible to find clear explanations of what different features mean, along with clear examples of use-cases of when I might want to enable or disable said features. I'll typically keep the defaults if I'm not as familiarized with a subject matter, but if experience has shown anything it's that most system's defaults are typically not designed with security as the top priority.
Can't say I saw any benefits during my brief IPv6 trial. First of all, typing out an IPv6 address is rather tedious. Second, I wasn't able to get a URL with an IPv6 address as the host to work with my browser. Maybe I had to include a scope, or perhaps I screwed something else up. I have no clue.
I am in the same boat as you. I took a few days to read the RFCs to figure it out (as I never found any sort of good guide for IPv6), and I am not confident I set up my hone network securely, mainly because of the "I don't know what I don't know."
I also had a few different subnets (to separate IoT and untrusted devices from my network), and I could never consistently get a stable subnet from my ISP outside of a /64 (mind you I am using Pfsense, not a consumer router). When did get a /56 subnet, I had a lot of connectivity issues I never had with only IPv4, and they went away instantly once I blocked all IPv6 off my network. I was also never able to confirm outside connectivity into my network via IPv6 either.
I may try it again, but I really don't want to go through a lot of pain and suffering to try and get IPv6 "working" to only have those connectivity issues again.
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I had IPv6 enabled for a few months but eventually turned it off since I wasn't confident I had configured my home network securely. When I tried asking for help, I was criticized and told that I should just read the RFCs...
Does anyone have suggestions for a beginner friendly home networking guide? How are others setting up their home network?
It's also a bit frustrating to me that routers provide so many options, yet it seems nigh impossible to find clear explanations of what different features mean, along with clear examples of use-cases of when I might want to enable or disable said features. I'll typically keep the defaults if I'm not as familiarized with a subject matter, but if experience has shown anything it's that most system's defaults are typically not designed with security as the top priority.
Can't say I saw any benefits during my brief IPv6 trial. First of all, typing out an IPv6 address is rather tedious. Second, I wasn't able to get a URL with an IPv6 address as the host to work with my browser. Maybe I had to include a scope, or perhaps I screwed something else up. I have no clue.
I am in the same boat as you. I took a few days to read the RFCs to figure it out (as I never found any sort of good guide for IPv6), and I am not confident I set up my hone network securely, mainly because of the "I don't know what I don't know."
I also had a few different subnets (to separate IoT and untrusted devices from my network), and I could never consistently get a stable subnet from my ISP outside of a /64 (mind you I am using Pfsense, not a consumer router). When did get a /56 subnet, I had a lot of connectivity issues I never had with only IPv4, and they went away instantly once I blocked all IPv6 off my network. I was also never able to confirm outside connectivity into my network via IPv6 either.
I may try it again, but I really don't want to go through a lot of pain and suffering to try and get IPv6 "working" to only have those connectivity issues again.