On 10/02/11 01:57 PM, David Montminy wrote:
> 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)
> 

I am on a full dual-stack setup, a static IPv4 address, with both a /58
and a /64 IPv6 range.
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