{"id":2151,"date":"2019-01-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camilion.dms3labs.cat\/2019\/01\/25\/getting-ipv6-in-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:02:03","slug":"getting-ipv6-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/2019\/01\/25\/getting-ipv6-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting IPv6 in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This blog post was published in coordination with the one on
\nungleich’s blog<\/a> about
\nbringing IPv6 to Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who are we and why do we care about IPv6?<\/h2>\n

We, Camilion Consulting & Development<\/a>, are a small company based
\nin Barcelona, and we provide consulting<\/a>
\nservices in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) world, while
\nalso developing<\/a> software<\/a> to help engineers
\nworldwide work better and faster, so that they free themselves from fighting
\nthe tools and keep doing wonderful things.<\/p>\n

So, we are not an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and we don’t have a huge
\ninfrastructure (it keeps growing though).<\/p>\n

Basically, we don’t make<\/em> the internet, we are what you might call
\nadvanced users<\/strong> of the Internet.<\/p>\n

Now, if we are just advanced users, why do we care about IPv6?<\/h2>\n

Well, while not being a huge company or an ISP, we do have the will and
\nknowledge to self-host any services that are critical for our operations.<\/p>\n

Why a company would want to do that is a question better answered on a future
\npost, but the quintessence is that politics have an effect on the world and
\nwhat is a good\/free\/cheap service today, can either not be available to us or
\nbe a huge liability in the future.<\/p>\n

And, as it turns out, being a small company means that we cannot afford in
\ntime and effort changing providers for Operation-critical services every
\ncouple years and we cannot assume a sudden or huge downtime due to things
\nout of our control like services shutting down, changing terms and conditions,
\nor plain political instability.<\/p>\n

Running our own services is much easier and cheaper with IPv6,
\nnot only is IPv6 Only Hosting<\/a> cheaper, it is
\nsomething we can do ourselves, on our own premises, without being an ISP.<\/p>\n

What is the state of IPv6 around Iberia?<\/h2>\n

According to Google’s IPv6 report<\/a>, Spain has an
\nIPv6 penetration of 2.16% (as of January 23rd 2019).<\/p>\n

Taking into account that Google has pretty much a search monopoly in Spain,
\nthis means that their data, when it comes to IPv6 penetration, reflects
\nquite well the state of the market.<\/p>\n

As you can see, it is a pretty bad situation.<\/p>\n

It’s not that it’s not possible to get IPv6 at all, but the main ISPs in
\nthe state do not offer that service and in fact, based on our experience,
\nmany of their technicians and most of their support (even for companies)
\ndon’t really know what IPv6 is.<\/p>\n

There are smaller, local ISPs like Iguana<\/a> or
\nParlem<\/a> that offer IPv6 connectivity, and some big ISPs
\nare starting to test waters but, like with many bottom-to-top changes, it will
\nlikely take some time. And, in case you wonder, we cannot currently use those.<\/p>\n

We need IPv6, we need it now. How to get that?<\/h2>\n

We have a very good relationship with the people at ungleich and
\nIPv6 is one of their strengths, and a focus point of their on-going
\ncrowdfunding<\/a>, we decided to both help them out and
\nfinally solve our IPv6 needs once and for all by contracting their VPN for a
\n\/48<\/code> block.<\/p>\n

\n

Update:<\/strong> their crowdfunding is over now, you can read about it
\nhere<\/a>
\nand get the VPN on their new IPv6 shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since they needed to allocate the block and setup the routing, which
\ncoincidentally meant that they had to setup new servers, Nico,
\nungleich<\/a>’s CEO, proposed we gave WireGuard<\/a> a go.<\/p>\n

This has a bunch of advantages server-side, which we already geeked out about
\nprivately, and will be published on a follow-up post by him.
\nA preview can already be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the client side this meant:<\/p>\n