Alexey
October 18, 2023, 3:36am
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Hello @nokiafe1 ,
Our network protocol itself supports IPv6 fully, in fact my satellite in the past ran with full Dual Stack.
As you correctly mentioned, we are currently relying on Google GCP for our satellites which do not / or just partially support IPv6.
Besides that as mentioned from other answers above it is not “just a switch”. It involves lots more than just adding an IPv6 address to the satellite/storagenode (eg. equal chances for nodes regardless of the protocol, making sure IPv4 only clients can sill…
The main point - both sides (the customers and nodes) should support and use IPv6.
Even if the satellites will fully support IPv6, and your node too, but some big customers still use IPv4 only, you will not see their traffic on your IPv6-only node…
I can definitely agree that the situation is frustrating. It’s also frustrating for a lot of us who are engineers on the project. We designed the system from the beginning to support IPv6; there wouldn’t be any need to rewrite software to enable it. Some satellites have had IPv6 endpoints already.
I expect you’ve already heard this before, but for the sake of someone else reading the thread: the main thing stopping us from moving to another cloud provider and enabling IPv6 everywhere is that we…
So you need to have a dual stack to have connections from the customers. You may have IPv6 connections mostly from our gateways (they are dual stack). At the moment having at least IPv4 is mandatory for nodes.