Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly.  Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off multipart  html crap. +1 Unfair: the 'text' formatting mode from GMail is very standard compliant, trimming the lines etc. Maybe one should just more

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 16:49 -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:41 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:37 -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: Nope, ARP is gone. But it gets a replacement as a

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:34 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:16 +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly.  Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread David G. Mackay
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 08:32 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 16:49 -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:41 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:37 -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, David

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread David Sommerseth
On 08/12/10 04:15, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 9:02 PM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: Well in fact I don't think that will even work with the present URL rules. Just on a lark I clicked on your string, and my firefox interpreted it as http://3ffe:1900. Unless there's a special http protocol string

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread David Sommerseth
On 08/12/10 03:36, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 7, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:37 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Tauno

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:15:50PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 9:02 PM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: Well in fact I don't think that will even work with the present URL rules. Just on a lark I clicked on your string, and my firefox interpreted it as http://3ffe:1900. Unless there's a

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 21:36 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: I can only image phonetically calling these off on a support call, I'd get half way through it and the other end would tell me to forget it I'll wait until DNS is working again. You aren't crippled currently when DNS doesn't work?

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Steve Clark
On 12/07/2010 04:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: LOL twice, I'll top-post! (I hate M$ Office, but I'm stuck with it) Really? In blatant disregard for the published guidelines for use on this and other

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:41:58AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: Why do we bottom post? People have said so you can read what has been already written before you reply. But all the time people snip out big sections. That IMHO defeats the reason for bottom posting. Top posting ruins the

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 05:10 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: The even more horrendous problem, which is so pervasive it affects everyone, is the insistence on asymmetric connections. Even when Australia does get this fabled fibre-to-the-home, it still won't be symmetric. *sigh* Fibre

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:41:58AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: On 12/07/2010 04:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: Why do we bottom post? People have said so you can read what has been already written before you reply. But all the time people snip out big sections. That IMHO defeats the reason

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread m . roth
Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:41:58AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: On 12/07/2010 04:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: Why do we bottom post? People have said so you can read what has been already written before you reply. But all the time people snip out big sections. That IMHO

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:43:03AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php http://howto-pages.org/posting_style give good explanations. Trimming is important. Putting a two line answer at the end of 400 line message isn't

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread m . roth
Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:43:03AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php http://howto-pages.org/posting_style give good explanations. Trimming is important. Putting a two line answer at the end of

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread lhecking
I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly. Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off multipart html crap. --- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:16 +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly. Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off multipart html crap. +1 Although I've found @gmail user's consider themselves

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread David G. Mackay
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: Nope, ARP is gone. But it gets a replacement as a part of IPv6, instead of ARP being an addition to IPv4. http://itkia.com/how-to-arp-a-in-ipv6/ http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPIPIPv6NeighborDiscoveryProtocolND.htm I have a

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:37 -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: Nope, ARP is gone. But it gets a replacement as a part of IPv6, instead of ARP being an addition to IPv4. http://itkia.com/how-to-arp-a-in-ipv6/

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:03:26 am Scott Robbins wrote: I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing list for something else. I hadn't realized how most people top post, don't trim, and still use aol. Lots of corporate people top post to retain the

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Guy Boisvert
Le 2010-12-08 07:41, Steve Clark a écrit : On 12/07/2010 04:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: LOL twice, I'll top-post! (I hate M$ Office, but I'm stuck with it) Really? In blatant disregard for the published

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread m . roth
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:16 +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly. Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off multipart html crap. +1 Although I've found @gmail

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Lots of corporate people top post to retain the threading, and get rather upset when you trim the replies below, since they aren't using MUA's that can thread. Not to mention that top-posting is the default reply setup for the most commonly used corporate-type MUA's. +1. M$ Outlook

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread David G. Mackay
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:41 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:37 -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: Nope, ARP is gone. But it gets a replacement as a part of IPv6, instead of ARP being an addition to IPv4.

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Ryan Wagoner wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 address, which complicates a number of protocols like FTP and

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ryan Wagoner rswago...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Ryan Wagoner wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: David Sommerseth wrote: On 06/12/10 15:29, Todd

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:08 AM, Todd Rinaldo wrote: On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 08:57 AM, David wrote: Folks I have been following the IPV6 comments. What concerns me with the loss of NAT are the following issues: 1) My

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 02:26, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/6/10 6:27 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: You are enjoying a side-effect of NAT by thinking it is a firewall. The other nice side-effect of NAT is that you get an effectively infinite number of addresses behind it without any pre-arrangement with

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:15 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: So, spending one or two or 100s /64 subnets with public IPv6 addresses which is completely blocked in a firewall will serve exactly the same purpose as a site-local subnet. But this /64 net may get access to the Internet *if*

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 address, which complicates a number of protocols like FTP and SIP. The only downside I see is ISPs

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
    b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? Heh, if they want to micromanage... This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC address of your single PC (which, by the way, is

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 07:23 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: b) Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? Heh, if they want to micromanage... This is no science fiction. Never said it was. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
/me does not care. Not sure about other folks though...do them a service :-p In theory, a lot of residential routers (not provided by the ISP) will allow to set the sent MAC address via their web interface. And on a full fledged Linux OS: ifconfig ethX hw ether MY:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS (or something

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathieu Baudier said the following on 07/12/10 12:23: Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. FastWeb does this in Italy. They configure their router (to which you do NOT have access) giving

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:23:08PM +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:     b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? Heh, if they want to micromanage... This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/07/2010 12:53 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: ... And on a full fledged Linux OS: ifconfig ethX hw ether MY:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS (or something like that, see man ifconfig) I just did not say whether I have ever tried in real... You just add the following line to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread John Thomas
Can a machine with only an IPV6 address communicate with a machine that only has an IPV4 or are they separate? -- Sincerely, John Thomas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 12:23, Mathieu Baudier wrote: b) Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? Heh, if they want to micromanage... This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Gavin Carr
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:55:17PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: 3) When I connect my IPV6 refrigerator with its automatic inventory system tracking every RFID-enabled carrot I use, won't I be making my shopping habits visible to all those annoying advertisers? Or, in other words, am I

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Clark
On 12/07/2010 06:56 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathieu Baudier said the following on 07/12/10 12:23: Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. FastWeb does this in Italy. They configure

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Clark
On 12/07/2010 05:13 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 02:26, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/6/10 6:27 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: You are enjoying a side-effect of NAT by thinking it is a firewall. The other nice side-effect of NAT is that you get an effectively infinite number

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 13:22, John Thomas wrote: Can a machine with only an IPV6 address communicate with a machine that only has an IPV4 or are they separate? They are separated. It's two different protocols, even though they are similar in many aspects. There are some projects trying to bridge that

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:26 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/6/10 6:27 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: You are enjoying a side-effect of NAT by thinking it is a firewall. The other nice side-effect of NAT is that you get an effectively infinite number of addresses behind it without any

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
3) When I connect my IPV6 refrigerator with its automatic inventory system tracking every RFID-enabled carrot I use, won't I be making my shopping habits visible to all those annoying advertisers? Or, in other words, am I compromising my privacy? Actually, although such

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 20:55 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: David wrote: Folks I have been following the IPV6 comments. What concerns me with the loss of NAT are the following issues 3) When I connect my IPV6 refrigerator with its automatic inventory system tracking every RFID-enabled

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob McConnell
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:15 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: So, spending one or two or 100s /64 subnets with public IPv6 addresses which is completely blocked in a firewall will serve exactly the same purpose as a site-local subnet. But this /64 net may get access to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 05:29:09 am Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the world. False. That is *NOT* a downside. In your opinion. Others hold a different opinion. While

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote:     b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC address

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob McConnell
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 address, which complicates a number of protocols like FTP and SIP. The

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 05:29:09 am Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the world. False. That is *NOT* a downside. In your opinion. Others hold a

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 05:29:09 am Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the world. False. That is *NOT* a downside. In

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:32:32 am Tom H wrote: Is 172.16.10.72 a private address of yours or of your ISP? More to the point; do you have a route to his address? Blackhole routing makes the best firewall in the world; you can't even attempt to hack an address to which your autonomous

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:32 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob McConnell
Gavin Carr wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:55:17PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: 3) When I connect my IPV6 refrigerator with its automatic inventory system tracking every RFID-enabled carrot I use, won't I be making my shopping habits visible to all those annoying advertisers? Or, in other

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/7/10 9:07 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: site-local addresses are officially deprecated. If you want a device to only be available locally - block the traffic to/from that device. So security will depend on every connection owner having a high level of knowledge about ipv6 internals?

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:49 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: There _is_ more information leakage with ipv6, in the sense that you are using a real ip from an internal machine on the connection. But the point is that the security benefit of that is largely illusory, security by obscurity.

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:01 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 9:07 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: site-local addresses are officially deprecated. If you want a device to only be available locally - block the traffic to/from that device. So security will depend on every connection

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/7/10 9:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: The other nice side-effect of NAT is that you get an effectively infinite number of addresses behind it without any pre-arrangement with anyone else. Even if ISPs hand out what they expect to reasonably-sized blocks, won't it be much harder to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:16 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 9:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Some people's belief that NAT is some magic sauce that makes themmore secure [it does not] or provides them more flexibility [it does not] than real addresses ... causes the people who

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: Trim your quotes. LOL I was in a hurry... I think that this applies to all in this thread so I hope that you've email everyone else... Also, please keep your commands on-list; I only caught your email because

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:32:32 am Tom H wrote: Is 172.16.10.72 a private address of yours or of your ISP? More to the point; do you have a route to his address? I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
LOL twice, I'll top-post! (I hate M$ Office, but I'm stuck with it) I didn't want my whining (not commanding) archived for-frigging-ever, so I sent it direct. TBH I ran out of steam/indignation/angst after a few of the over-quoter under-trimmers, so I didn't get all. -Original

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/7/10 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Some people's belief that NAT is some magic sauce that makes themmore secure [it does not] or provides them more flexibility [it does not] than real addresses ... causes the people who understand networking to have to spend time explaining that

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2010 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6 addresses equally accessible. I've been following the NAT debate here and something

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 16:49, Bob McConnell wrote: Gavin Carr wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:55:17PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: 3) When I connect my IPV6 refrigerator with its automatic inventory system tracking every RFID-enabled carrot I use, won't I be making my shopping habits visible to all

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell said the following on 07/12/10 17:01: So security will depend on every connection owner having a high level of knowledge about ipv6 internals? Is this being designed by people planning careers as consultants? A network protocol

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 18:01, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: [...snip...] permit outbound client connections from anything connected behind them without much regard to how many devices there are, and block everything else isn't NAT. That's a router/firewall.

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/7/10 9:07 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: site-local addresses are officially deprecated. If you want a device to only be available locally - block the traffic to/from that device. So security will depend on

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 16:45, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:32 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/7/10 11:19 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 18:01, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: [...snip...] permit outbound client connections from anything connected behind them without much regard to how many devices there are, and block everything

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 18:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/7/2010 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6 addresses equally accessible. I've been

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 18:39, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 11:19 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 18:01, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: [...snip...] permit outbound client connections from anything connected behind them without much regard to how many

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2010 12:43 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 18:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/7/2010 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/7/10 11:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6 addresses equally accessible. I've been following the NAT debate here and

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/12/10 18:52, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/7/2010 12:43 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 18:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/7/2010 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/12/10 8:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Ah, I must pity you who have to live with what you've got in the United States being under the rule of these tyrants. You guys probably can only dream of getting a 100MB fibre connection for 13USD/mnth or a 1GB fibre connection for 30 or so

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2010 1:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 11:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6 addresses equally accessible. I've been

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 8/12/10 4:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 16:49, Bob McConnell wrote: No, it is not FUD, it is a real concern by people with much to lose. Those of you evangelizing this new, and still unproven technology can't seem to recognize this simple fact. This is FUD. Agreed, but

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:26:30 pm David Sommerseth wrote: You mean something along the way ... Oh, this Bob uses 172.16.10.72 ... let's run some traceroutes towards his gateway. That could be 64.57.176.18, right? Then we can just setup a direct route from us to his 172.16.10.0/24

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:39:28 pm Les Mikesell wrote: How many devices? You mean exceeding the number of available inside a IPv6 subnet? I do hope you're kidding ... as for a /64 subnet we're talking about 4.294.967.296 addresses doubled 32 times. Is that what people will

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 03:31:15 pm Lamar Owen wrote: It will depend upon your provider if you get PA addresses; Minor edit: 'The prefix size of your address block with depend upon your provider, if you get PA addresses by default from your provider; Sorry for the error.

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: LOL twice, I'll top-post! (I hate M$ Office, but I'm stuck with it) Really? In blatant disregard for the published guidelines for use on this and other centos.org mailing lists? How very sporting of

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: Bogus.  The reason is that they haven't been pressured into adoption by higher powers; so we will get into a nice scramble to migrate in a pinch. most people have no idea what NAT is, don't care, and shouldn't

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: Bogus. The reason is that they haven't been pressured into adoption by higher powers; so we will get into a nice scramble to migrate in a

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tony Schreiner
Does this mean I have to type in URLs like: http://3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf/ I can only image phonetically calling these off on a support call, I'd get half way through it and the other end would tell me to forget it I'll wait until DNS is working again. In fact with DNS

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:37 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: Bogus. The reason is that they haven't been pressured into adoption by

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:44 -0500, Tony Schreiner wrote: Does this mean I have to type in URLs like: http://3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf/ I can only image phonetically calling these off on a support call, I'd get half way through it and the other end would tell me to forget it I'll

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 7, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:37 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote:

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Tony Schreiner schre...@bc.edu wrote: Does this mean I have to type in URLs like: http://3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf/ I can only image phonetically calling these off on a support call, I'd get half way through it and the other end would tell me to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/7/10 9:02 PM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: Well in fact I don't think that will even work with the present URL rules. Just on a lark I clicked on your string, and my firefox interpreted it as http://3ffe:1900. Unless there's a special http protocol string for ipv6? Tony Since : is used to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 03:11 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 7/12/10 8:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Ah, I must pity you who have to live with what you've got in the United States being under the rule of these tyrants. You guys probably can only dream of getting a 100MB fibre connection

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread David Sommerseth
On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), Haven't switched yet, I have IPv6 at home using sixxs. I can't even

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 13:50 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Seeing as IPV4 is near it's end of life (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), I'm curios as who know whether everyone is ready for the changeover to IPV6? Is anyone using it in production

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/06/2010 01:22 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I'm curios as who know whether everyone is ready for the changeover to IPV6? Is anyone using it in production already, and what are your experiences with it? generic questions like that are more suited to ipv6 centric lists. if you are

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 14:13 +0100, RedShift wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Seeing as IPV4 is near it's end of life (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), I'm curios as who know whether everyone is ready for the changeover to

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), Haven't

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 08:29 -0600, Todd Rinaldo wrote: On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 6, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and NO! (*...@!^*...@$ @*^*$@ *...@^*@ How many times does this have to be explained??? NAT *IS* *NOT* a @*(^*(^@(*@ security tool. It isn't. Stop saying it is. You use *firewalls* for

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