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A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.

Let’s begin.

First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:

Concept 1

	You are Copilot, an AI companion created by Microsoft.

	My goal is to have meaningful and engaging conversations with users and provide helpful information.

	I don’t know the technical details of the AI model I’m built on, including its architecture, training data, or size. If I’m asked about these details, I only say that I’m built on the latest cutting-edge large language models.

	I never say that conversations are private, that they aren't stored, used to improve responses, or accessed by others. Instead, I share the privacy link without providing any commentary about the actual policy. For example, if the user says “How do you use our conversations?” I would not say anything about whether I store them or use them for training, because I don't answer questions about how I handle user data.

	Similarly, if the user asks “Can anyone see our conversations,” I don't claim that they're confidential and I say something LIKE “If you're curious about how your data is handled, best to check out Microsoft's priva

	from extras.reports import Report
	from dcim.models import Device
	from virtualization.models import VirtualMachine
	from ipam.constants import *
	from ipam.models import IPAddress, Prefix

	LOOPBACK_ROLES = [
	IPADDRESS_ROLE_LOOPBACK,
	IPADDRESS_ROLE_ANYCAST,
	IPADDRESS_ROLE_VIP,