[167167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Dec 2 21:41:31 2013
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:06:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.w7hpn2m5tfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:59:51 -0500, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>> ... A simple RA/DHCP option could do this.
>
> Great. Now I have to go upgrade every g** d*** device in the network to
> support yet another alteration to the standards.
The standards orgs shot us all in the foot by not including an RA option
in DHCPv6 from day one.
> It turns out to be a mark-up of over 200x their annual cost (and they charge
> that per month) -- so it's a significant income stream. (how many people are
> buying, they aren't saying.)
Verizon hits me up for something like an extra $20/month to get a static
IPv4 address for my Fios service, plus I had to buy a business service to
get it. Worse than the mark-up on wine at a nice restaurant ;)
jms
