I read this thread and the workarounds. Workarounds help, but not anyone can use them or can do the extra work.
I am not currently affected but the signs around me aren’t good. Here in Greece there are at least 3 cases of ISPs that started using CGNs recently. For now, you can still get a normal IPv4 with a phonecall to their support but for how long? IPv4 addresses are depleted, IPv6 is the future and I have native support for it in my home ISP and my work ISP both but it is useless if the application level support is not there.
@aeonx said:
Curious: What does ipv6 actually achieve in that situation?
IPv6 support allows users who only have IPv6 to access MyPlex. It would also allow users that are accessing IPv4 via DS-Lite or NAT64 to access it without using a potentially congested transition mechanism.
Wow just lurking back into this thread. Three years and it is still not implemented. Amazing esp. considering how low hanging fruit this feature is. It requires literally no change to their infrastructure and only a single extension of the MyPlex metadata. The Server supports IPv6, the Client supports IPv6 the only component that doesn’t support IPv6 is the one thing that glues Client and Server together when connecting remotely.
It is more that people actually need to like the first post to vote it up instead of reading and replying, but I am still trying to push this thread up ever so often to get it noticed.
@hackztor@gmail.com said:
is it really a need or a want?
For many users behind carrier grade NAT it’s a need as they have no remote access. The new relay mode is meant to alleviate that partially but it limits speeds considerably.
@hackztor@gmail.com said:
is it really a need or a want?
Kinda both. It’s quite annoying to pay €5/month for my IPv4 address, which I only need for Plex… Some people however don’t even have the option to get a real Dual stack.
It should be clarified on this thread that IPv6 is already supported (and has been for some time).
If you go to Plex->Settings->Network you’ll see an option to Enable server support for IPv6. Then you can access Plex at your IPv6 address at port 32400 outside of your network.
What most people are requesting is support for Plex to register an IPv6 address in it’s name discovery system that allows Plex to be found by clicking on the ‘launch’ button from plex.tv.
If all you need is IPv6 support, then you can enable it. No need for an IPv4 address.
This is a real must. My ISP now has carrier grade NAT and I am only accessible from the outside with an ipv6 address, so I now must have a VPN going 24/7 on my plex server to make it available remotely. Hopefully this will be implemented sometime soon.
@driscoll42 said:
This is a real must. My ISP now has carrier grade NAT and I am only accessible from the outside with an ipv6 address, so I now must have a VPN going 24/7 on my plex server to make it available remotely. Hopefully this will be implemented sometime soon.
If you go to Plex->Settings->Network you’ll see an option to Enable server support for IPv6. Then you can access Plex at your IPv6 address at port 32400 outside of your network. No VPN needed.
@driscoll42 said:
This is a real must. My ISP now has carrier grade NAT and I am only accessible from the outside with an ipv6 address, so I now must have a VPN going 24/7 on my plex server to make it available remotely. Hopefully this will be implemented sometime soon.
If you go to Plex->Settings->Network you’ll see an option to Enable server support for IPv6. Then you can access Plex at your IPv6 address at port 32400 outside of your network. No VPN needed.
This only works when you’re connecting directly to the server through a web browser, i.e. http://[ipv6 address]:32400/web/index.html. Most of the Plex clients do not support ipv6, and most importantly this does not work for logging into ‘Remote Access’ and accessing my Plex library easily from my Roku, my iPhone, plex.tv, sharing my library with my friends, etc. Your solution unfortunately vastly limits Plex’s usefulness to me.
@driscoll42 said:
This only works when you’re connecting directly to the server through a web browser, i.e. http://[ipv6 address]:32400/web/index.html. Most of the Plex clients do not support ipv6, and most importantly this does not work for logging into ‘Remote Access’ and accessing my Plex library easily from my Roku, my iPhone, plex.tv, sharing my library with my friends, etc. Your solution unfortunately vastly limits Plex’s usefulness to me.
@tkeeler33 said:
It should be clarified on this thread that IPv6 is already supported (and has been for some time).
If you go to Plex->Settings->Network you’ll see an option to Enable server support for IPv6. Then you can access Plex at your IPv6 address at port 32400 outside of your network.
What most people are requesting is support for Plex to register an IPv6 address in it’s name discovery system that allows Plex to be found by clicking on the ‘launch’ button from plex.tv.
If all you need is IPv6 support, then you can enable it. No need for an IPv4 address.
The IPv6 connection is a shell. Most of the background connections still work over IPv4. Turn off v4 on the device you’re using to connect and you’ll soon see the reality
