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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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 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.
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* 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 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
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