On 10/02/2011 11:26 AM, Patrick McLean wrote:
On 10/02/11 11:17 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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)
I currently have an IPv6 native address on my home DSL with Teksavvy.
You have to request it in the Teksavvy direct forum at dslreports.com
after you set up the account. With some tweaking to my pppd config, IPv6
works great running radvd on my router (a Linux box).
Do you get Ipv4 functionality with Dual-stack or NAT64? (or even
something else)
--
David Montminy
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