Stewart Stremler wrote:
Right. And you think an ISP will give you unlimited free IPv6 addresses? Or that they'll do so for very long?
Yes. If you have an IPv4 address you have 2^32 ipv6 addresses at your disposal. That is unlimited free IPv6 addresses for all practical purposes.
Remember, this is a world where DHCP is used to forcibly expire IP addresses (and dropping open connections when it does so), and the ISP didn't go out of business. This is a world where people voluntarily use AOL, and are happy with any policy AOL chooses to enforce.
Actually, I have never run into a problem with DHCP forcibly expiring IP addresses and dropping my connections on me but I can see how it might happen.
Don't blame NAT for bad configuration tools and poor user interfaces. If you don't want to use NAT, you don't have to. Go buy some IP addresses.
I believe he proposed using IPv6. That is even better than buying more IPv4 addresses. I think we can blame NAT for otherwise good configuration tools and user interfaces not working well in the face of such unnecessary adversity.
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