Hello Matthew , See way below ...
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
Scott Howard wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore
<patr...@ianai.net>wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft
<m...@internode.com.au>wrote:
but my point was that people are starting to assume that v6 WILL mean
static allocations for all customers.
By design IPv6 should mean _less_ static allocations than IPv4 - in the
event that a client disconnects/reconnects and gets a new /64 then their
network *should* automatically handle that fact, with all clients
automagically renumbering themselves to the new /64, updating DNS, etc.
Local communications won't be impacted as they should be using the
link-local address.
_should_
As I asked before - I'm really keen to actually do this stuff - but all I get
is people who haven't done it telling me theory and not how it works in
practise in a real ISP of some scale.
Telling customers "well, you might get renumbered randomly" isn't going to
work, no matter what the theory about it all is. They do crazy and
unexpected things and bleat about it even if you told them not to. At worse
they stop paying you and leave!
My hope is that PD will be used for the majority and statics will be small in
number. My FEAR is that customers have already been conditioned that v6 will
mean statics for everyone because v6 has so many! (This has already been the
assumption many have made from the customer side).
The bit that isn't clear at the moment is if (and how well) that will
actually work in practice. And that brings us back to the good old
catch-22
of ISPs not supporting IPv6 because consumer CPE doesn't support it, and
CPE
not supporting it because ISP don't...
Tell me about it.
As I asked before - has ANYONE done this before? ie. fully dualstacked to
customers? Or is it still theory?
Has Anyone responded to you on/off list with even a close approximation
of showing they have accomplished what you've requested ?
I am beginning to be worried that no one [has|is willing to divulge]
that they have accomplished this . One would think that someone would at least
pipe up just for the bragging factor .
Twyl , JimL
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