On 16/01/2013 08:31, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, fredrik danerklint wrote:
From the article:
"Faced with the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the failure of IPv6 to take off, British ISP PlusNet is testing carrier-grade network address translation CG-NAT, where potentially all the ISP's customers could be sharing one IP address, through a gateway. The move is controversial as it could make some Internet services fail, but PlusNet says it is inevitable, and only a test at this stage."
I would hope that PlusNet has valid, well-thought-out reasons for deploying CGN instead of IPv6. Not knowing those, I can only jugde their position on its face: foolish and short-sighted.
Apparently they aren't _totally_ blind to v6, but it sounds like it's been put in the mystery "when we have a spare moment!" bin: http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,106125.0.html S.