Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-15 Thread Marco
Am 15. Aug 2022, um 13:44:55 Uhr schrieb Tim Woodall: > All because the same 10.x addresses had been chosed and renumbering > one or the other was too hard. That is why I hate IPv4. With IPv6 there is not NAT necessary and if ULA is implemented correctly (random bits), almost no collision

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 15 Aug 2022, Marco wrote: Am 15. Aug 2022, um 08:15:30 Uhr schrieb Tim Woodall: Isn't the danger here that everybody starts using fd00::/64. Even for ipv4, the odds of two sets of private addresses colliding should have been small... They may collide, but it is not a real problem,

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-15 Thread Marco
Am 15. Aug 2022, um 08:15:30 Uhr schrieb Tim Woodall: > Isn't the danger here that everybody starts using fd00::/64. Even for > ipv4, the odds of two sets of private addresses colliding should have > been small... They may collide, but it is not a real problem, because it only affects the

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 14 Aug 2022, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 Aug 2022 at 05:35:17 (+), Marco wrote: Am 13. Aug 2022, um 23:42:17 Uhr schrieb David Wright: AFAICT the rest of your post is concerned with global IPv6 addresses rather than local (ULA) ones, which is why the prefix for the home LAN has

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Aug 2022 at 05:35:17 (+), Marco wrote: > Am 13. Aug 2022, um 23:42:17 Uhr schrieb David Wright: > > > AFAICT the rest of your post is concerned with global IPv6 addresses > > rather than local (ULA) ones, which is why the prefix for the home > > LAN has to be given to you rather

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-13 Thread Marco
Am 13. Aug 2022, um 23:42:17 Uhr schrieb David Wright: > AFAICT the rest of your post is concerned with global IPv6 addresses > rather than local (ULA) ones, which is why the prefix for the home > LAN has to be given to you rather than generated/assigned by yourself. It is possible to use an

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Aug 2022 at 09:37:02 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2022-08-13, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Aug 2022 at 08:12:11 (-), Curt wrote: > >> I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > >> local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-13 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, mick.crane wrote: On 2022-08-13 10:37, Curt wrote: Getting Your IPv6 Addresses with 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses you'd think everything could have it's own permanently but it would likely be too slow to find it without being able to

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-13 10:37, Curt wrote: Getting Your IPv6 Addresses with 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses you'd think everything could have it's own permanently but it would likely be too slow to find it without being able to narrow it down a bit and it would be a

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-13 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-13, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 10 Aug 2022 at 08:12:11 (-), Curt wrote: >> I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all >> local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first place, > > Don't you need them to be identical because

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Aug 2022 at 08:12:11 (-), Curt wrote: > I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first place, Don't you need them to be identical because otherwise everybody would have to configure their

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 10, 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 04:12:11 AM Curt wrote: > > I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > > local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first > > place, and that NAT was essentially designed

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-10 Thread rhkramer
Hmm, big (to me) oops -- pre-2020 should have been pre-2000 On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 08:23:13 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: My first encounters with NAT were back in the days (pre-2020) > when my LAN consisted only of DOS (or Windows) computers. One (DOS) -- rhk If you

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-10 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 04:12:11 AM Curt wrote: > > I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > > local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first > > place, and that NAT was essentially designed to palliate this

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-10 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 04:12:11 AM Curt wrote: > I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first > place, and that NAT was essentially designed to palliate this shortage. Yes, aiui, NAT was

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-10 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-09, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:15:15PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:04:13 + >> Andy Smith wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:15:15PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:04:13 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not > > > announced any plans

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:04:13 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote: > > > Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! > > > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-03 Thread Marco
Am Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:50:46 + schrieb Andy Smith : > In this second reply, because you had said that no ISP will do > "this" (without saying what "this" is), I thought you were arguing > that there will be no IPv6 firewall. So my question was "why do you > think having an IPv6 firewall is

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:35:44AM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? > > It is additional work and

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 6:36 AM Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? > > It is additional work and it breaks certain

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-03 Thread Marco
Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 + schrieb Andy Smith : > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? It is additional work and it breaks certain protocols. IPv6 doesn't need NAT, so why should an ISP do

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 06:23:26PM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:40:42 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > It's possible that some providers might do IPv6 NAT as well, but I > > think the majority would just apply some default and quite > > restrictive packet filter rules. >

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote: Similarly, it is already possible to have your local network be IPv6-only and have the router convert anything that is v4-only back to IPv4. Some mobile networks work like this, and more and more networks might go this way as v6 eclipses v4, but that is

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Marco
Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:38:31 - (UTC) schrieb Curt : > I'm uncertain what happens with local addresses, if anything. You RFC1918 IPv4 addresses will stay the same and you computer will get additional addresses from a /64 subnet of 2000::/3. These are public addresses - no nasty and slow NAT

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Marco
Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:40:42 + schrieb Andy Smith : > It's possible that some providers might do IPv6 NAT as well, but I > think the majority would just apply some default and quite > restrictive packet filter rules. I have never seen that and it makes no sense to do that for a provider

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Marco
Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 12:01:44 -0400 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: > I know that IPv6 is a much larger address space so, iiuc, it would be > harder for a "cracker" to find IPv6, but I'd probably want to > continue to run behind NAT, so the idea that I wouldn't even know if > my ISP switched to IPv6

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Marco
Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:44:54 -0400 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not > announced any plans to discontinue it? > > I feel like I'm getting too old to learn (too many) new things, so if > my ISP made a similar announcement, I'd want

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 04:38:31PM -, Curt wrote: > I'm uncertain what happens with local addresses [in IPv6], if > anything. At the moment if you are using RFC1918 IPv4 addresses on your network, it's either an isolated network, or else it has a router that does NAT to convert those

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:01:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I know that IPv6 is a much larger address space so, iiuc, it would be harder > for a "cracker" to find IPv6, but I'd probably want to continue to run behind > NAT, so the idea that I wouldn't even know if my ISP

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-02, Andy Smith wrote: > >> Or, I'd be looking for a very simple explanation of how to switch to and use >> Ipv6 -- not looking for that now, but Imight have to at some point. :-( > > Just do nothing. > That's exactly what I've done about it, nothing. All I've understood concerning

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:01:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I know this is probably a silly worry, but I run behind an IPv4 NAT, which makes me feel fairly safe. This is a common, but wrong, idea; NAT doesn't keep you safe, a packet filter keeps you safe. You can have either one

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, August 02, 2022 11:04:13 AM Andy Smith wrote: > But in reality you probably aren't ever going to have to take > any action with regard to IPv6. ... > Most of Sky's > customers will not know or care that at some point IPv6 got switched > on for them. Well, I know this is probably a

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote: > > Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not > announced any plans to

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread Lee
On 8/2/22, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote: >> Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not > announced any plans to discontinue it? correct it's quite likely that I'll

Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-02 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote: > Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not announced any plans to discontinue it? I feel like I'm getting too old to learn (too many) new things, so if my ISP