On 28/11/23 17:19, Joe wrote:
A third use, now becoming more important, is that some services such as banks will not accept connections from ISPs other than the one you normally use, or won't accept connections from some particular institutions.
One use I make of the VPN is to give my phone IPv6 Internet access. It does IPv6 natively but my phone network won't support it.
I have set up my OpenVPN installation and certificates to give IPv6 addresses to my phone. My ISP has been nice enough to give me a /56 IPv6 range.
Having IPv6 is not essential, but it is certainly useful in giving my phone a unique IPv6 address or a range, say /64. In your bank case, your phone network is very unlikely to give you a unique persistent IPv4 address, but with the VPN you can certainly lock in your IPv6 address(es)
