On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Scott Reed wrote:
And just how are you going to make all of us small ISPs, or the big ones for that matter, do that?
Well, if you want my business, you'll do it. If not, I'll route around you as damage. If enough customers approach the problem this way, it will happen. In addition, I think a large number of providers are already seeing that static is, for the most part, just simpler to manage in IPv6 and considering going that way. The cable MSOs are the obvious exception for semi-obvious reasons specific to their technology.
I don't disagree with you, but I think the conversation needs to continue assuming that is not going to happen.
Why assume the less likely case will come to pass? IMHO, static is more likely than dynamic given the forces at play.
And that may not be what happens within a large organization that uses private connections to consolidate connects to the Internet.
A large organization that does that should get their own PI space and multihome. Why would they do anything else? Owen
On 8/2/2011 1:17 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 60:33:4b:01:75:85 inet6 fe80::6233:4bff:fe01:7585%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.191.223 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.191.255 inet6 fd92:7065:b8e::6233:4bff:fe01:7585 prefixlen 64 autoconf inet6 2001:470:1f00:820:6233:4bff:fe01:7585 prefixlen 64 autoconf media: autoselect status: active
Note the multiple prefixes. IPv6 is not just IPv4 with bigger addresses. If you want to give your printers, etc. stable IPv6 addesses use ULAs.
Icky.
Better yet, just subscribe to an ISP that will give you a static prefix.
Owen
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