[114333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Wed May 6 17:18:34 2009
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 17:18:18 -0400
To: TJ <trejrco@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <013201c9ce8c$4720b940$d5622bc0$@com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:50:15 -0400, TJ <trejrco@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW - WinXP uses 24hours/change_in_prefix/reboot as the default criteria
> for new Privacy IID creation, is that not aggressive enough?
I define that as "not aggressive". (I've seen ISPs rotate addresses (DHCP)
faster than that.)
> I'd be curious to know what makes it "awful" IYO, I use it daily and
> have few complaints ... ?
Where's the GUI for dealing with it? It's Windows(tm) after all.
And it brings along a few other things we didn't ask for... a Toredo(?)
tunnel interface, for one.
But yes, it is functional. It'll get you to the small assortment of ipv6
websites around.
> (I think the bigger / better complaint against WinXP is the lack of
> IPv6-transport support for DNS ... and perhaps the lack of DHCPv6 client
> functionality as well)
Yes, but those things require more than just an IPv6 stack. Service
components have to be changed to handle DNSv6 and DHCPv6.
