Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-25 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Seth Mos wrote: Hi, Op 24 nov 2011, om 21:09 heeft Joel jaeggli het volgende geschreven: On 11/21/11 14:18 , Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix allocations to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-24 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 11/21/11 14:18 , Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix allocations to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or even worse, /64. Owen, What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he cannot do with a /56 or a /60?

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-24 Thread Seth Mos
Hi, Op 24 nov 2011, om 21:09 heeft Joel jaeggli het volgende geschreven: On 11/21/11 14:18 , Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix allocations to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or even worse, /64. Owen, What does Joe

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Bjørn Mork
Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us writes: What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he cannot do with a /56 or a /60? What does Joe's ISPack save the missing bits for? Bjørn

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Monday 21 Nov 2011 20:27:55 Owen DeLong wrote: I suspect that mDNS/Rendezvous will become much more widespread in the IPv6 household and will become the primary service discovery mechanism. It actually works quite well and is relatively resilient to either frequent renumbering or the

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Ray Soucy
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Seth Mos seth@dds.nl wrote: What is bewildering to me is that each time the system establishes a new PPPoE session to the ISP they assign a different IPv6 prefix via delegation together with a differing IPv4 address for the WAN. Is this going to be

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Joel Maslak
On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: As long as a static allocation can be billed as a premium service, most providers will unfortunately do it. Exactly. ISPs are in business to make as much money as they can - go figure. For myself, having a static IP is the least of

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Janos Mohacsi
Hello, On 11/21/11 16:21, Seth Mos wrote: Hello List, As a pfSense developer I recently ran into a test system that (actually) gets a IPv6 prefix from it's ISP. (Hurrah). What is bewildering to me is that each time the system establishes a new PPPoE session to the ISP they assign a

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Owen DeLong
Worst case, you can always get an IPv6 static /48 from at least one provider without any additional cost. Owen On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Seth Mos seth@dds.nl wrote: What is bewildering to me is that each time the system establishes a

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Arturo Servin
snip On 22 Nov 2011, at 13:38, Joel Maslak wrote: 1) Not having IPv6 at all. I expect to get it on my DSL in about 10 years or so when the equipment my line on is old enough to be replaced under a 15 or 20 year replacement cycle. 2) Bandwidth caps probably affect people a lot more than

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Joel Maslak wrote: On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: As long as a static allocation can be billed as a premium service, most providers will unfortunately do it. Exactly. ISPs are in business to make as much money as they can - go

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:19:25 PST, Owen DeLong said: On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Joel Maslak wrote: Exactly. ISPs are in business to make as much money as they can - go figure. How do you make more money by refusing to meet customer requests? I could understand how it MIGHT make more

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Tim Franklin
3) If you write an application using anything other than UDP or TCP, it won't work on most networks (with some minor exceptions for PPTP and IPSEC, which work sometimes). This hasn't been my experience unless you're behind some form of NAT. Yes, it is well known that NAT breaks most

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Ray Soucy
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:36 AM,  valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: A number of providers seem to be doing just fine with that business model over on the IPv4 side of the fence.  And since they're usually a near-monopoly in their service area, angry customers aren't likely to actually vote

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:36 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:19:25 PST, Owen DeLong said: On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Joel Maslak wrote: Exactly. ISPs are in business to make as much money as they can - go figure. How do you make more money by refusing to meet

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread David Conrad
On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: Exactly. ISPs are in business to make as much money as they can - go figure. How do you make more money by refusing to meet customer requests? Not rocket science. The vast majority of customers fall into a small number of categories. You make

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com naively wrote: On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Joel Maslak wrote: On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: As long as a static allocation can be billed as a premium service, most providers will unfortunately do it. Exactly. ISPs are

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Owen DeLong
3) If you write an application using anything other than UDP or TCP, it won't work on most networks (with some minor exceptions for PPTP and IPSEC, which work sometimes). This hasn't been my experience unless you're behind some form of NAT. Yes, it is well known that NAT breaks most

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:43:35 PST, Owen DeLong said: Not sure why you'd blame Microsoft. HTTP{,S} is increasingly looking to be the real IPng. Perhaps because they have done more than any other vendor to enable/encourage this trend? Actually, I'd nominate the creator of the PIX firewall

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:30 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:43:35 PST, Owen DeLong said: Not sure why you'd blame Microsoft. HTTP{,S} is increasingly looking to be the real IPng. Perhaps because they have done more than any other vendor to enable/encourage this

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Brielle Bruns
*** *** right. *** like * ** to ** *** what *** * *** ** **. :) -- Brielle (sent from my phone) On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:30 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:43:35 PST, Owen DeLong said: Not sure why you'd blame Microsoft. HTTP{,S} is

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Bjørn Mork
Seth Mos seth@dds.nl writes: Hello List, As a pfSense developer I recently ran into a test system that (actually) gets a IPv6 prefix from it's ISP. (Hurrah). What is bewildering to me is that each time the system establishes a new PPPoE session to the ISP they assign a different IPv6

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/11/2011 16:33, Bjørn Mork wrote: But you should be prepared to handle the situation anyway. s/be prepared to handle the situation/plan to handle this as default/ Nick

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 21, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Seth Mos wrote: Hello List, As a pfSense developer I recently ran into a test system that (actually) gets a IPv6 prefix from it's ISP. (Hurrah). What is bewildering to me is that each time the system establishes a new PPPoE session to the ISP they assign a

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:27:55PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: Unfortunately, there are some ISPs that believe this is the right thing to do. Some go so far as to claim that scrambling customer prefixes is a mechanism to help insure customer privacy. s/ISPs/governments, privacy people and

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:27:55PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: Unfortunately, there are some ISPs that believe this is the right thing to do. Some go so far as to claim that scrambling customer prefixes is a mechanism to help insure customer

RE: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix allocations to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or even worse, /64. Owen, What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he cannot do with a /56 or a /60? Nathan

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 22:18, Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us wrote: Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix allocations to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or even worse, /64. Owen, What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he

RE: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he cannot do with a /56 or a /60? Flexibility. With dhcpv6 prefix delegation, you are going to want devices to be able to request (at least) /60s for further delegation (and better yet /56s to allow them to delegate /60s with further

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-21 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2011, at 14:18, Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us wrote: Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix allocations to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or even worse, /64. Owen, What does Joe Sixpack do at home