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My ISP supports none of them. The problem is not that I couldn't get on the IPv6 net. It's that my ISP has zero interest in helping me do so. Until that's fixed, it's pointless worrying about another way to get to the same sites/services as I already do.

Obviously you should switch to the highest ranked ISP by IPv6 traffic volume.

Measurements | World IPv6 Launch

That's right. Comcast.

Because Comcast.
http://serverfault.com/questio...
http://www.worldipv6launch.org...

Here you go: http://www.worldipv6launch.org...

Right, so far it's just bit players like Comcast and TWC. Maybe someday the major consumer ISPs will support IPv6, but that day certainly isn't November 9th, 2011.

Just to add a "me too," I also have IPv6 support with Time Warner, which kind of surprises me as I live in the middle of nowhere and so I expected I'd be one of the last to see it.

Supposedly Time Warner is up to 10% deployment now, still behind Comcast's 30%, but no longer drastically far behind as they were in the past. http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ I think they were only at 7% the month before, but unfortunately that web site doesn't seem to keep the old data around.

It was quite hard to find that I even had IPv6. Time Warner's people don't even know what IPv6 is, so they can't tell you if you have it. My modem's status page has a line that says "Modem's IP Mode -- IPv4 Only" which for months made me think I didn't have it, but it turns out that that's irrelevant. Even after I discovered that IPv6 was there by using tcpdump and seeing IPv6 packets, it still took me all day to get Linux to recognize it and use it.

For some retarded reason, Linux doesn't accept IPv6 router advertisements when it is configured to route IPv6 packets. I still haven't figured out why anyone thought that it shouldn't. Doesn't a router need to know where to send its packets, and thus, it needs to accept router advertisements? Since I had been using a Hurricane Electric tunnel, and my computer had been routing IPv6 packets for the rest of the LAN, it was configured to be a router, and so it ignored my native IPv6. I eventually discovered there is a setting to make it accept router advertisements while also routing packets, but why it doesn't by default is a real mystery.

Pretty much everything I've done with IPv6 has been like that. The support is kind of there, but since it hasn't seen widespread use, the bugs haven't been worked out. Like router firmwares, even the open source ones, they may claim to support IPv6 but in reality it's just glued on and barely makes an appearance in the UI and where it does it often doesn't work correctly, like you can click on an IPv6 address that's a link to set up a static DHCP lease, but the page you're taken to to set it up has a text input field with a max length that doesn't permit the address to fit, and indeed even if it did it wouldn't work anyway.

The only thing I found that really works well is using pfSense, but even it has a few issues, like its inability to use DHCPv6 on your LAN if you obtained your IPv6 address via DHCPv6 (which you almost certainly did, as that's just how ISPs distribute addresses, even when they're static).

Anyway, while the ISPs have been dragging their feet on IPv6 for a long time, I don't think the router, application, and OS support is as great as everyone thinks. Seems more like it's just easy to pretend that it is since there's no IPv6 for anyone to use them with to know any differently. Indeed, it's likely part of the problem. If you're adding IPv6 support to something, the best you can do is test that it works with your specific IPv6 configuration, and so you'll know it works great with a Hurricane electric tunnel, but it isn't until someone tries to use it with native IPv6 that you'll figure out stuff like that routers need to accept router advertisements too.

AT&T has more IPv6 users than any other ISP in the world:
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/

Granted, it's all based on 6rd, but you can't say they're not trying.

Some of the Perl libraries haven't been updated to support IPv6 yet. This is a major problem and just one of the issues why I don't have much faith in Perl or CPAN.

Maybe time to rewrite in PHP or something that is progressing with the times?

BTW IPv6 world day is not just an experiment this time: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/

The launch site includes a list of participating home router vendors, where Cisco and D-Link are both listed with links where they list what routers of theirs currently have IPv6 support.
The Cisco list has several Linksys E-series routers.
Not to say it isn't about bloody time. Selling non-IPv6 network equipment in this day and age is practically a scam.

I'm trying to create a wallpaper for the event, see here:

http://minus.com/mkqbM0Sr6#2

The XCF is in there too, but the preview is all wrong. Will post updated versions there unless someone comes along and does a better job (I'll admit it's not *that* hard).

I'm using the SVG from the site: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/downloads/ .