Full IPV6 support
Will the Mini-8 be updated to fully support IPv6? I see a link-local IP6 address assigned, but no global is being acquired. The rest of my network is fully IPv6 capable, and we're approaching the day when this will be necessary.
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GordonL: Just out of curiosity, allow me to ask: Why do you want to use IPv6?
I'm not questioning that once you run IPv6 on your network, you also need the RainMachine to support it. That makes perfect sense. It's just that what I'm seeing in networking around my workplaces is that adoption of IPv6 in the US has fundamentally stopped, and it is being abandoned. A few years ago, we thought the world would run out of IP addresses, and as long as the idea was that every computer needs a globally addressable and unique IP address, that would have been true. But firewalling off internal networks and NAT'ing them has made it unnecessary. Today, most computers are on private subnets, using address for example from the 10.x and 192.168.x address ranges. This has also caused most large computer users to return their class A networks (even IBM no longer has control of the 9... class A network), which has opened up a lot more number space.
The only place where I personally see IPv6 in production are very large computer users who have too many machines for the 10.x network, and have to use the larger number space. I don't know about adoption in Europe and asia. But I don't think there are very many of those super-large networks that contain RainMachines (I can't see Amazon AWS or Microsoft having RainMachines directly on its internal cloud network).
Again, this is just my curiosity ... I'm interested in your motivation.
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As the cloud grows there will be more and more demands for IP's and eventually there will be no more IPv4 addresses. When that happens, new services will be IPv6 only.
Carriers have also invested into CGN for when they do run out of address space.
Better to have the IPv6 capability now before it is needed.
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I bought the RainMachine for its cloud independence, and IPv6 support means I could connect to my RainMachine from any of my mobile devices without having to use proxies, port forwarding, or "stupid NAT tricks". Sure, people's workplaces may not support IPv6 since enterprise is usually slow to adopt things, but that's irrelevant. Cellular carriers like Verizon Wireless are already fully committed to IPv6 with LTE (https://www.apnic.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/vzw_apnic_13462152832-2.pdf) and I get IPv6 from my ISP with prefix delegation.
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