On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:12 -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
Like many people, I can't justify the expense of "commercial" IP connectivity for my residence. As a result, I deal with dynamic IP addresses; dns issues; and limitations on the services that I can host at my residence. It just struck me that in the same way that IPv6 connectivity can be done via tunneling over IPv4 (Hurricane Electric, etc.), that static IPv4 addressability could be offered in a similar fashion.
Some my question is:
Does anyone offer (probably bandwidth restricted) IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling (with static IPs) commercially?
I realize that making use of such a service MIGHT violate Terms of Service agreements, but that is going to vary from provider to provider and doesn't make offering such a service inherently wrong. Other possible reasons such services might be desired include wanting access to Internet services which are regionally restricted. (Again TOS violation possibilities MAY or MAY NOT apply.)
In the (very?) long term, IPv4 over IPv6 tunneling could end up being one way that organizations can get IPv4 connectivity when the default changes from only-IPv4 to only-IPv6. (Yeah, I know that day may never come...)
Thanks, Bill Bogstad
You could do this with a VPS. Make sure they run Xen or KVM or VMware though, so you have control over the routing table. William