IPv6 for new connections

[planetf1]

Are vodafone offering IPv6 on new home broadband connections yet?

[Ripshod]

Currently available to new broadband customers only. 

[planetf1]

I currently am not a vodafone customer. I'm considering taking out the 900/100 service (openreach).
So I would be a new customer... ie good news
However ipv6 is essential, so I'm figuring out whether this is written down anywhere.

[VodMatt]

I'm been on Vodafone broadband since 2018, with one of the FTTC packages. They allocated me an IPV6 address in December. So they are rolling them out to existing customers, though I think quite slowly and only to small groups of customers at a time.

[planetf1]

What did you get?

 They assigned a prefix?

do you know what size ie /56 ? /64? /48 ….?

[VodMatt]

It was a /56 block, though the router then sub-divides that into a few /64 blocks. See https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Other-broadband-queries/Possible-IPV6-bug-in-Vodafone-Wifi-hub-that-... for the problems it was causing me.

[zb]

I switched to Vodafone (CityFibre FTTP) in July 2024 and was assigned a dynamic /56 IPv6 block. As @VodMatt described above, the PowerHub subdivides the /56 block in three /64 networks (WAN, LAN (Ethernet + WiFi), and an isolated Guest WiFi network). The Power Hub implements an IPv6 firewall that, by default, blocks inbound packets to the local network, but the firewall can be configured (hub’s web UI) through “IPv6 Pinholes” that are similar to IPv4 NAT port mapping. To configure an IPv6 Pinhole, the local device is selected by its Ethernet MAC address instead of its private IPv4 address, given that the IPv6 addresses are dynamically allocated (they may change when the hub reboots, for example).

The Power Hub WAN is also assigned one public dynamic IPv4 address (not CGNAT), externally usable through dynamic DNS and IPv4 NAT port mapping.