On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:26:28AM -0500, Stephane Bakhos wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:04:11AM -0500, Peter Silva wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Everyone has seen to news about ipv4 exhaustion. I was thinking about >>> switching ISP's to go from DSL to cable for b/w, 5 mb/s sucks. The main >>> downside is that I have a static ip on my dsl that I would like to keep. I >>> figure if I switch to ipv6, I will get a static ip for free... so... are >>> there any isp's in montreal, that re-sell cable, and support ipv6? >> >> I've been told that teksavvy has started to do IPv6 on an experimental >> basis, and I think they resell through cable in Quebec. They're worth a >> call. >> >> Be careful, though. You may still need ipv4 to access ipv4-only sites, >> probably the majority of sites in the world right now. > > Also you need to make sure that all of your equipment can handle ipv6. A > lot of home routers still don't, especially Linksys ones.
My home router is a big Linux box. What I do is make sure that the DSL modem pases the PPPOE connection directly to my computer, rather then handling it itself. So the modem doesn't even need to see and IP addresses -- except for the one you use to configure it over ethernet. And Linux definitely does handle IPv6. (though I'm currently no using IPv6 yet, so this is untested advice) -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
