On 8/7/20 2:06 PM, james wrote:
Here is an short read on the acceptance and usage of IPv6:
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/2020-the-year-of-ipv6/
So, yes I am working on using IPv6, with my RV/mobile-lab.
I think that IPv6 is a good thing.
But I would be remis to not say that IPv6 is somewhat of
On 8/1/20 2:45 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 7/31/20 1:54 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If I had a week with nothing to do, I'd love to try to get something
like that working
You don't need a week.� You don't even need a day.� You can probably
have a test tunnel working (on your computer) in
On 8/1/20 1:53 PM, antlists wrote:
That's one of the good things about the UK scene. In theory, and mostly
in practice, the infrastructure (ie copper, fibre) is provided by a
company which is not allowed to provide the service over it, so a
mom-n-pop ISP can supposedly rent the link just as
On 8/1/20 5:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Statically entered in the DHCP server doesn't count as static?
Not to the client computer that's running the DHCP client.
The computer is still configured to use a dynamic method to acquire it's
IP address.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 2020-08-01, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Static IP address has some very specific meaning when it comes to
> configuring TCP/IP stacks. Specifically that you enter the address to
> be used, and it doesn't change until someone changes it in the
> configuration.
Right. That's what I was talking
On 01/08/2020 19:52, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 7/31/20 2:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
There may be half way decent ISPs in the US, but I haven't seen one in
over 20 years since the last one I was aware of stopped dealing with
residential customers. They were a victem of the "race to the bottom"
On 01/08/2020 19:48, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 7/31/20 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address that your OS
(or firewall/router) acquires via DHCPv6 (or v4). [I set up stuff
like
On 7/31/20 2:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
There may be half way decent ISPs in the US, but I haven't seen one
in over 20 years since the last one I was aware of stopped dealing
with residential customers. They were a victem of the "race to the
bottom" when not enough residential customers were
On 7/31/20 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address that your OS
(or firewall/router) acquires via DHCPv6 (or v4). [I set up stuff
like that all the time.]
Counter Nit: That's
On 7/31/20 1:54 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If I had a week with nothing to do, I'd love to try to get something
like that working
You don't need a week. You don't even need a day. You can probably
have a test tunnel working (on your computer) in less than an hour.
Then maybe a few more hours
On 7/30/20 4:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
* Grant Edwards:
Pricing is based on what people are willing to pay. People are willing
to pay extra for a static IPv6 address, therefore static IPv6
addresses cost extra.
Somewhere, and some people. I'd be interested to hear from users who
still
On 2020-07-31, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/29/20 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> Aren't all IPv6 addresses static?
>
> No.
>
> SLAAC and DHCPv6 are as dynamic as can be.
Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address
On 2020-07-31, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/30/20 5:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
>> I'd be interested to hear from users who still need to pay extra
>> for IPv6.
>
> I'd be willing, if not happy, to pay a reasonable monthly fee to be able
> to get native IPv6 from my ISP.
>
> But it's 2020 and my
On 2020-07-31, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/29/20 5:23 PM, james wrote:
>> Free static IPs?
>
> Sure.
>
> Sign up with Hurricane Electric for an IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel and request
> that they route a /56 to you. It's free. #hazFun
If I had a week with nothing to do, I'd love to try to get
On 7/30/20 5:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
I'd be interested to hear from users who still need to pay extra
for IPv6.
I'd be willing, if not happy, to pay a reasonable monthly fee to be able
to get native IPv6 from my ISP.
But it's 2020 and my ISP doesn't support IPv6 at all. :-(
As such,
On 7/29/20 1:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
I don't know what most ISPs are doing. I couldn't get IPv6 via
Comcast (or whatever they're called this week) working with OpenWRT
(probably my fault, and I didn't really need it). So I never figured
out if the IPv6 address I was getting was static or
On 7/29/20 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Aren't all IPv6 addresses static?
No.
SLAAC and DHCPv6 are as dynamic as can be.
Static is certainly an option. But I see SLAAC and DHCPv6 used frequently.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
* Grant Edwards:
> Pricing is based on what people are willing to pay. People are willing
> to pay extra for a static IPv6 address, therefore static IPv6
> addresses cost extra.
Somewhere, and some people. I'd be interested to hear from users who
still need to pay extra for IPv6. Here in Germany
On 2020-07-29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:59:11 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Pricing isn't based on cost. Pricing is based on what people are
>> willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6
>> address, therefore static IPv6 addresses cost extra.
On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:55:27 BST antlists wrote:
> I think there's static, and there's effectively static.
>
> If your router is running 24/7, then the IP won't change even if it's
> DHCP. But your router only needs to be switched off or otherwise off the
> network for the TTL (time to
On 29/07/2020 16:41, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:59:11 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
Pricing isn't based on cost. Pricing is based on what people are
willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6
address, therefore static IPv6 addresses cost extra.
On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:59:11 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> Pricing isn't based on cost. Pricing is based on what people are
> willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6
> address, therefore static IPv6 addresses cost extra.
Aren't all IPv6 addresses static? Mine
On 2020-07-29, Wols Lists wrote:
> ? I can understand a fee for a static IP4 - they've run out,
> after all, and people are fighting over them ...
>
> Don't ISPs get a 2^64 allocation of IP6 *network* addresses? They
> should just allocate one to your router and that's that! Still, I
>
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