[172539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Jun 22 21:54:23 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <53A785B2.8020103@bitfreak.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:56:01 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 22, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org> wrote:
> On 6/18/2014 11:49 AM, TJ wrote:
>> Yeah, Verizon and VZW are not the same animal ... FiOS *needs* to get =
their
>> IPv6 house in order.
>> Anyone have any information on that front ...?
>=20
> For FiOS, the ONTs do transparent muckery at the IP level and aren't =
yet capable of equivalent IPv6 muckery. Verizon is also quite confident =
they don't actually have to do anything about it. Instead, they'll just =
roll out 6RD relays like Qwest/Centurylink did. You didn't REALLY need =
a 1480 MTU, did you?
>=20
> For Comcast business services, the SMC box on my demarc panel isn't =
IPv6 capable and neither are any of Comcast's other business CPE.
Not true. The Netgear CCB tried to install here just a couple of days =
ago is IPv6 capable. Unfortunately, it breaks IPv4 by not being capable =
of bridge mode and insisting on NATing everything inside unless you =
subscribe to static IPv4 addresses from Comcast.
OTOH, you can supply your own Motorola Surfboard DOCSIS 3 modem and it =
works just fine with Comcast Business.
Owen
