On Friday the 6th, Internode went public with the announcement of a native IPv6 trial for their customers. As a fan of IPv6, I’m particularly excited about this, especially seeing as though now Internode is the first ISP in Australia to offer native IPv6 (albeit in an opt-in trial form) to its residential customers.
I’m not going to bore you with details or a dodgy rehash, so I will instead invite you to read the announcement and the IPv6 ADSL Trial pages for yourself.
For those that like to dive in head-first without checking the depth or for the presence of sharp rocks, you can opt-in by changing the @internode.on.net part of your PPP username to @ipv6.internode.on.net.
I got it working on my own connection, and I am very impressed with the performance. The speed of my IPv6 connection is now no slower than my IPv4 connection (unlike connections that use tunnels to get v6 connectivity), and all users are allocated a static /60 subnet, which is absolutely the right way to implement it, in my opinion.
Internode supports up to 4 concurrent PPPoE connections on a single ADSL line, which is handy to know for testing. You can have your IPv4-only “production” connection, and a second IPv6-enabled “experimental” connection that you can play with and not worry about disrupting family members if it breaks.



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