From deon@1337:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Wednesday, July 08, 2026 08:51:11
Howdy,
Just discovered the IPv6 map, and I'd be really loving to see how I can get the value out of this. My goal is to get rid of IPv4 (it bugs me keeping two network stacks alive, and its twice the work when figuring out why something aint working - especially since not all devices prioritises IPv6 over IPv4).
A thought, the map is rendering fd00:368:0:fe0a::/64 in my case, and below it is listing a handful of hosts, with their IPv4 address - I have to click on each one to see what it's IPv6 address is.
I should have more IPv6 hosts, atleast all devices on the local lan should be getting one, but I'm only showing 10... :(
Can you add the router as well? (From the RA announcements?)
IPv6 is so much harder to know what the device is, especially since SLAAC gives it another 16 chars to the address, vs IPv4 DHCP that gives it 1 number...
So, real-estate is a challenge, but I think it would still be better to show its IPv6 address over the IPv4 one. Since you know its a /64, there is no need to re-show the first 16 chars again, perhaps just render it as *:a:b:c:d, or shortform *::23 when their is a vanity IPv6 address.
(If you worked out a network was a /68, then you only need to show the last 15 chars, etc).
I would show the "shorter one" (almost always vanity) over the larger one (almost always SLAAC).
Actually you could identify tag the SLAAC address as SLAAC, since you would know the MAC address as well, and thus anything else is either manually assigned or may DHCPv6?
I could imagine if tipoff was really strong in helping understand the IPv6 network, it could become a key tool, since IPv6 is foreign to many and getting more pervasive every day.
On that topic, an subnet calculator (IPv6/4) would be soo handy. I'm finding I'm always going to vultr to use theirs and having something local would nice :)
I'm not getting many hostsnames either. Some proxmox machines are showing up with their number, others not, and the Intel ones are all the same version of proxmox. I must have messed something up there...
Some hostnames are fully qualified, some just the "host" name. I need to figure out how to make those consistent as well.
...лоеп
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