[135056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Otis)
Sat Jan 15 18:39:18 2011
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:38:17 -0800
From: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.1101151822000.426@cevin-2.local>
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On 1/15/11 3:24 PM, Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>> I really doubt this will be the case in IPv6.
> I really hope you are right, because I don't want to see that either,
> however...
>
> Why do you suppose they did that before with IPv4? Sure you can make
> the argument NOW that v4 is in scarce supply, but 10 years ago it was
> still the case.
>
> Has Comcast actually come out and committed to allowing me to have as
> my IPs as I want on a consumer connection in the most basic, cheapest
> package? Has any other major provider?
As a customer of Comcast, you can set up a tunnel to he.net and obtain
your own prefix which then enables 18 x 10^18 IP addresses at no
additional cost. See: http://tunnelbroker.net/ and http://www.comcast6.net/
-Doug
