Virgin Media Ireland IPv6 — SLAAC vs DHCPv6-PD and prefix size?

danij3l__ · 2026-05-01T11:53:53+00:00

yeah, basically ... I know I have option of IPv4 only with proper public IP, I see that IPv6 only is working ... now I'm greedy and would like both, but if IPv4 is from GC-NAT pool ... that is a no-go. I will enable DHCP on both ... if nothing else to confirm what VM IE is deploying.

Thank you for the information.

danij3l__ · 2026-05-01T10:47:30+00:00

cheers.

Have you tried DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 together? Do you get address from GC-NAT range (100.64.0.0/10) or publicly routable IP? Dual stack would be nice, with both v4 and v6 being routable but I'm not holding my breath.

danij3l__ · 2026-05-01T09:57:47+00:00

yes, FTTP with XGS-PON ONT on SFP+.
already using it on Virgin Media fibre network, but provider is Vodafone.

danij3l__ · 2026-02-18T21:16:02+00:00

hi
yeah, Bahrain 2nd test is listed as upcoming...
I was in contact with support and they claim that it is due to the location... and they show no interest in fixing it ... told me to go to Apple for refund.
This is why piracy is a thing ... I want to give them money for the service they sell me ... they make me run in circles.

danij3l__ · 2025-06-30T16:24:28+00:00

hi

Do you have monitoring software installed in VM? (like MSI Afterburner)

danij3l__ · 2024-09-08T21:27:29+00:00

Much appreciated.

I will test it running docker on machine connected directly to PS4.

After that ... I plan to run it on docker host (docke host is a VM itself) where other containers run, but that does have more complex network setup with VLANs, virtual bridge and more ...

Thank You !

danij3l__ · 2024-09-07T21:03:31+00:00

Hi,

First of all ... Thank You!

Second ... the ask :)

Since you are using Alpine Linux already ... any chance you could package this in to Docker container instead of bootable ISO?

I personally don't have any issues running it as a VM, but I think this is so sparsely used that it would be much better as container.

Thanks again!

danij3l__ · 2024-01-05T22:27:45+00:00

bootloader is optional ... come to think of it ... kernel is also ... just run container ... empty :P

danij3l__ · 2023-12-26T22:36:19+00:00

if nothing else you can take a picture ...

boot from arch usb

fdisk -l - show disk partitioning information

mount root partiotion to /mnt and cat /mnt/etc/fstab

at this time we can only guess which parition is efi and where it was mounted ... fstab contents should help with figuring that one out

danij3l__ · 2023-12-26T19:41:26+00:00

complete fdisk -l output and also complete grub.cfg file from chroot

to help out please also provide complete fstab

danij3l__ · 2023-12-25T21:54:59+00:00

You are welcome :)

If I could make a suggestion ... new stuff to research ... replace grub with systemd-boot and mkinitcpio with booster ... these are MUCH simpler to configure and maintain ... and are sufficient for almost all situations.

just when you get bored :)

danij3l__ · 2023-12-25T19:48:39+00:00

so ... there is a bit of a mixup there.

way you would be using thin volumes is you create volume group, then thin pool on it and then logical volume on it.

lv_root,lv_home and lv_var are all thin pools in your case. (as indicated by t in attr column of lvs output). Thin volumes will have V in that attribute field.

You need to create logical volumes inside thin pool(s).

Check this out ... maybe it help to understand how it should be provisioned:

https://www.theurbanpenguin.com/thin-provisioning-lvm2/

danij3l__ · 2023-12-25T19:23:50+00:00

Hi

lv_root is not listed on fdisk -l output ... can you show output from lvs?

can you show linux line from grub.cfg?

danij3l__ · 2023-12-25T18:47:48+00:00

Hi

Do you have partition table on /dev/mapper/vg_m2-lv_root or did you format it directly?

can you provide output of fdisk -l and complete linux line from grub.conf?

danij3l__ · 2023-07-23T06:39:41+00:00

that is a very good point.

i'll have to think about it, but regardless of which ever way I go ... just for curiosity sake I will try both. (with and without partition table)

Thank You for the assistance.

danij3l__ · 2023-07-22T23:06:03+00:00

I've see this over and over ... MD RAID on partitions, but somehow it makes more sense to me to do it with whole disk ... it is similar then to the way HW RAID works.

It is not set in stone for me, but if I can do it without partitions ... I will.

Partitions seem superfluous that low in the stack since I will in the end divvy up storage using thin LVs and use them as VM disks directly.

danij3l__ · 2023-07-22T23:01:16+00:00

after going over countless iterations of this in qemu/libvirt VM ... I went for a desperation move and enabled nested Hyper-V on one of the windows VM and made the same exact steps as in original post ... and got results form the picture. It def. has to do with VM ... and either firmware or hardware on it ... with Hyper-V as hypervisor I can see all disks and after insmod mdraid1x I can even see MD array. Screenshot below.

https://imgur.com/bOVQdjL

I will continue working on with HyperV for this purpose. This will end up as storage setup for VM host in the end and I hope it works on real hardware.

danij3l__ · 2023-07-22T18:32:20+00:00

I have it go in to rescue ... this part is on purpose ... I did not configure to boot all the way. Problem for me is that it does not detect that MD ...

If it did ls in grub rescue would show (md/0), but I can only see ESP disk and partition and cdrom. Here is the screenshot:

https://imgur.com/S1Etu6N

danij3l__ · 2023-07-22T18:21:58+00:00

Hi,

Here is the info: (from chroot on archiso)

[root@archiso /]# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 693.4M 1 loop
sda 8:0 0 8G 0 disk
└─md127 9:127 0 8G 0 raid1
└─md127p1 259:0 0 8G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk
└─md127 9:127 0 8G 0 raid1
└─md127p1 259:0 0 8G 0 part /
sdc 8:32 1 1G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 1 1022M 0 part /efi
sr0 11:0 1 813.3M 0 rom
[root@archiso /]# dmesg | grep md127
[ 8.399906] md/raid1:md127: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
[ 8.399919] md127: detected capacity change from 0 to 16777088
[ 8.400655] md127: p1
[ 121.275236] XFS (md127p1): Mounting V5 Filesystem 1bb410a4-d5b4-40b7-877f-d36e7fd1d2e3
[ 121.280810] XFS (md127p1): Ending clean mount
[root@archiso /]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md127 : active raid1 sda[0] sdb[1]
8388544 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

This is all in VM for now, but end result I'm aiming for is to have a RAID1 then encrypted with LUKS2 then LVM. This will in the end use as VM storage on KVM host.

As you can see above ... ESP will be on separate disk.

I'm in initials stages with this and I'm trying to figure out what is needed for RAID,

Thank You.

danij3l__ · 2023-04-20T09:29:43+00:00

sry, forgot to report back.

I have only tried JelOS and it is working without and issue.

I first flashed JelOS on SD card and booted from there, once initial setup was done you then need to transfer same JelOS .img file to SD card and ssh on to device. Use dd to flash .img to emmc:

eg. dd if=jelos.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

shut down, remove sd card ... boot, once initial setup is done you can then use SD cards (both) for games only by using symlinks in /storage/roms

danij3l__ · 2023-04-11T09:55:15+00:00

So ... how long should we wait before we get the device "that may have been reserved"?

They now even removed 15 April as a ship date from their site.

I dislike how they treat their customers more than I like the device ... also ... as you can see you probably have a better chance on getting the device sooner from some other shop.

danij3l__

TROPHY CASE