[135063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Jan 15 20:31:40 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <002401cbb513$5fd9dab0$1f8d9010$@iname.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:27:07 -0800
To: frnkblk@iname.com
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I hope the engineers in the organization will just tell their =
marketing folk
> that it's not possible to hand out just one IPv6 address. "Our =
hardware
> doesn't support it."
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> I think there's still room for ISPs to charge $10/month for a static =
prefix,
> though. And that's technically possible.
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Unfortunate, but, true. Fortunately, I don't have that problem. I got my =
addresses
elsewhere for less. ($100/year from ARIN is less than $120/year from =
your
ISP.)
Owen
> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Smith
> [mailto:nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org]=20
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 5:30 PM
> To: Brandon Ross
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
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> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:06:06 -0500 (EST)
> Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Brian Keefer wrote:
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>>> Actually there are a couple very compelling reasons why PAT will=20
>>> probably be implemented for IPv6:
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>> You are neglecting the most important reason, much to my own disdain.=20=
>> Service providers will continue to assign only a single IP address to=20=
>> residential users unless they pay an additional fee for additional=20
>> addresses.
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> How do you know - have you asked 100% of the service providers out
> there and they've said unanimously that they're only going to supply a
> single IPv6 address?
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>> Since many residential users won't stand for an additional=20
>> fee, pressure will be placed on CPE vendors to include v6 PAT in =
their=20
>> devices.
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>> --=20
>> Brandon Ross AIM:
> BrandonNRoss
>> ICQ:
> 2269442
>> Skype: brandonross Yahoo:
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