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. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
