[126152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: any "bring your own bandwidth" IPv4 over IPv4 tunnel merchants?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Mon May 3 17:47:07 2010
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: Bill Bogstad <bogstad@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <i2n2d6a9f6f1005031112se8de3e52x111c7dcdf5ba7042@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 16:46:34 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
