I have three connections at home both as a way to increase available bandwidth and also to provide some redundancy since I work from home and my ability to earn income is tied to my internet being up.

I have two primary connections that I load balance between, each providing a /56. If either fails, all traffic goes to the other. I have a third connection that is used only as a backup in the event that both the other connections go down, providing a /64.

So simple case, I assign an address from each connection out to each device.

Except, whoops--the backup ISP only provides a /64 and despite that containing something like 18.5 quintillion addresses (a number so large my spell check is telling me it's not a real word), I can't actually split those up in any meaningful way so I can only allow _one_ subnet to access the internet via that connection.

And then I'm pushing responsibility for load balancing between the two primary connections out to each client. You know, to the place with the _least_ useful information for making decisions in this situation. And then I need to figure out how to convince each device to make these decisions individually. (As far as I can tell, with an equal cost, Linux will simply use the most recently added address. So in the event that one of the primary connections is having issues and bouncing up and down, that's going to be the one that all the Linux devices choose to use preferentially. Absolutely what I'd want!)

So I give everything a ULA (which I'd want to do anyway so my internet going down doesn't mean my TV can no longer stream media from the server across the house, since that's a reasonable thing to expect to happen) and then look at doing some sort of prefix translation. Except since nobody's using this stuff because it's so very not hard, I hit a bunch of weird edge cases in my network gear trying to do that. Not the least of which is that I need to statically configure the prefix I'm translating _to_ except that's not provided to me statically so now I need to set up some sort of script to monitor the prefix on the external interface and dynamically update my firewall rules?

Oh, except apparently the RFC was only updated like a year and a half ago to prefer IPv6 ULA addresses over IPv4 so most devices would end up just using IPv4 anyway and the IPv6 deployment would be little more than a box checking exercise until everything's updated. (Though it looks like that change may never have been adopted anyway?)

Last time I was digging in to this, I ended up down a path of starting to file forms with IANA to get a IPv6 block directly allocated so I could use a GUA internally (avoiding the preference issue), do prefix translation for load balancing, and announce the IP range from AWS and tunnel it to my router to work around the /64 issue on the backup connection.

Or, or, or... hear me out... I can just... _not_. Nothing is broken right now. I derive no personal value or enjoyment from stacking up a house of cards I'll have to keep standing back up so my toaster can have a globally reachable internet address.

People can tell me it's "not hard" all they want, but after... oh hell, 30 years of bending computers and networks to my will, I feel pretty confident in saying either:

1. It is hard; or
2. IPv6 is fundamentally unfit for purpose.

I'd be happy for someone to come along and tell me I'm an idiot and _precisely why_ though. Really. Somebody. Please do. Tell me how I am supposed to make this work. I know it's a thing I _should_ be doing but I really can't figure out how.