Request to join the IPv6 Trial

[#1]

It's working perfectly with my own modem and router running OpenWRT. Thanks @dave 

[#2]

Thanks for the suggestions (pfsense and openwrt)

Its home edition on XG105 rev 3 hardware so could run pretty much anything.  Its just I have too many things running from the Sophos ecosystem to move away (2 SD-RED hardware tunnels, 3 WIFI AP, MTA inside XG). 

And currently the box as-is does 900mbps on about 30%CPU so performance is not currently the bottleneck! 

Whilst this IPv6 issue is frustrating, I will put something in-between to get it working rather than have to change everything else.

Fortunately I do have kit lying around!

[#3]

@ianr999 

The XG105 does support 6in4 tunnels, so you could configure a (free) Hurricane Electric Tunnelbroker account, and get IPv6 networking without needing to find hardware workarounds for DHCPv6 over PPPoE, and keep your existing Sophos ecosystem.

I ran an Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel for about 14 years (on pfSense), and the tunnel barely added any measurable latency and minimal speed loss compared to native IPv4 on a 76/19Mbps FTTC connection.

I appreciate that using a 6in4 tunnel doesn't help with contributing to the Plusnet trial, but is an effective way of getting IPv6.

[#4]

I ran a HE tunnel for many years too, however it was very erratic with regards to latency, some days it was better than ISP, others it was a bottleneck.

Reason I stopped using HE was because it was flagged as a US geolocation, and it kept breaking Netflix and iPlayer!

[#5]

Yes, I had a similar problem, but my tunnel identified as being an American ISP but always geolocated to be in London.

Unfortunately Netflix could detect that the IPv6 was via a proxy, tunnel, or VPN, so I setup a pfSense firewall rule to restrict Netflix traffic to only have IPv4 connectivity.

I never saw and latency issues with the tunnel, but I am within about 30 miles of the Hurricane Electric London end-point, which I believe are in the same building complex as my nearest Plusnet termination point.