Is anybody using only IPv6 in their home lab? I keep running into weird problems where some services use only IPv6 and are “invisible” to everyone (I’m looking at you, Java!) I end up disabling IPv6 to force everything to the same protocol, but I started wondering, “why not disable IPv4 instead?” I’d have half as many firewall rules, routes and configurations. What are the risks?

    • Anonymouse@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Can you elaborate? Hardware or software or both? Other than one network appliance, most of my stuff isn’t too old.

      Now that I start thinking about it, my work stuff may be impacted.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Many websites are still IPv4 only, so you won’t be able to access them unless you set up a NAT64 gateway. Some stuff won’t work over NAT64 though.

        Most recent hardware should support IPv6, but a lot of IoT devices still don’t. You can put any IoT devices on their own IPv4 network since it’s a security risk to have them on your main network though.