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> Do you think this would really happen? Is what you are saying above is
> the ISP allowing 256 IPv6 addresses to be usable over a PPP link?
> Because that would be great if that became some kind of a "standard
> service" by ISPs once IPv6 becomes standardized. :>
Well it would be a great improvement, it would help us all and solve lots
of problems with private LANs. The ISPs also had enough IP addresses to
allow themselves to route 256 of those to every PPP connection they have.
But, I personally am NOT sure that this will happen. I know lots of ISPs,
they do not really cre about the needs of the people. And as over 90% of
their users are using some kind of Microsoft OSes, they most probably have
not the slightest idea what routing is, they won't really have any benefit
of this, so I think ISPs will only start this service when there are
enough people requesting this.... and there won't be enough for a while.
This was my personal opinion.
> Is it possible now that an ISP can allow 2 or more IP addresses to exist
> on one customer's PPP dial-up connection (for LAN use) ? I don't
> know much about PPP and routing and a bunch of other stuff right now,
> but it is something that I have great interest in learning about.
PPP is just a protocol... it appears as an interface. How and what you
route to there is your own affair. It is usual to route only one IP to the
ppp device, but you can easily route any addresses to there. This has only
with the routing to do, not with ppp. So you will have no problems if you
route more IPs to the ppp devices. I have personally done it myself, it
works exactly how you await it to work.
TmL
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