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To encourage citizens to direct their complaints to the responsible agency. Most people won't be aware that the city is not responsible for the maintenance of all the roads in the city.
> 99.9% of those Linksys routers will have no need to run IPv6 in their effective lifetime.
Yes, because there are so many of them that ISPs will be forced to support them. They will do so by putting all their customers behind LSNAT. This has nothing to do with any sense of entitlement. None of us are going to buy these things. Our neighbors are.
And you'll find that you are still on IPv4 and behind a two layer LSNAT system because your neighbors, ordinary consumers who could no more install DD-WRT than they could perform brain surgery on themselves, all just went out and bought brand-new IPv4-only Cisco routers.
meaning it's not going to connect on the big-wacky side of the interwackytubes thing. it's going to be on a 10 network or a 192.168 network and fed by NAT from some host that has bgrp to the real thing.
Forcing even more ISPs to use LSNAT, making life difficult for all their customers and delaying the transition even more for everybody.
> Correct me if I am wrong, this should not be a hardware issue at all, right?
It could. First, they may have been so stingy with memory that there's no room. Second, they may have made "unauthorized" upgrades difficult or impossible. Doesn't matter. though. 99.99% of the owners of these routers are ordinary consumers.
The fact that some of their bottom of the line consumer routers still don't support IPv6 despite the fact that their more expensive products have supported it for years.
Why would it be bad for you if I use it to mask the number of my computers, do transparent proxies and other fun stuff that is only possible when it is possible to modify the source and destination fields in the header.
I don't think anyone has a problem with that. What we do have a problem with is the claim some are making that life is not possible without NAT and that IPv6 does not permit NAT.
I'm sure they will be when the machines develop and implement them for us in a thousand years or so (and they will probably bitch about how those stupid humans made the transition harder than necessary with their stupid design of IPv6.)
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> It's innovation, guys.
"Innovation" is not a synonym for "gimmick".
> ...this feature...
"Feature", unfortunately, is.
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Exactly the same as it putting out 'MaskedS'. Or '1234567'. Or 'b5c2502'.
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Wouldn't that count as negative information?
> The force is actually a downward force.
Nope. The only force on you is the upward one exerted on your body by the chair.
> And the point of that would be what?
To encourage citizens to direct their complaints to the responsible agency. Most people won't be aware that the city is not responsible for the maintenance of all the roads in the city.
Why get agitated about it? Why not just laugh at them?
On CenturyLink it's 68ms and ten hops to a HE router. I tried to ask them about their IPv6 plans: evidently they've never heard of it.
That's been standard practice in consumer electronics for decades.
> It hasn't reached a single end user yet.
What do you think is the reason for dynamic IPs? Why do you think many consumers now get an RFC1918 address from their ISP?
> 99.9% of those Linksys routers will have no need to run IPv6 in their effective lifetime.
Yes, because there are so many of them that ISPs will be forced to support them. They will do so by putting all their customers behind LSNAT. This has nothing to do with any sense of entitlement. None of us are going to buy these things. Our neighbors are.
And you'll find that you are still on IPv4 and behind a two layer LSNAT system because your neighbors, ordinary consumers who could no more install DD-WRT than they could perform brain surgery on themselves, all just went out and bought brand-new IPv4-only Cisco routers.
Forcing even more ISPs to use LSNAT, making life difficult for all their customers and delaying the transition even more for everybody.
> Correct me if I am wrong, this should not be a hardware issue at all, right?
It could. First, they may have been so stingy with memory that there's no room. Second, they may have made "unauthorized" upgrades difficult or impossible. Doesn't matter. though. 99.99% of the owners of these routers are ordinary consumers.
> Okay, what am I missing here?
The fact that some of their bottom of the line consumer routers still don't support IPv6 despite the fact that their more expensive products have supported it for years.
> I hear he's not doing much of anything these days.
Being dead will do that to you. Might still be a step up for Microsoft, though.
So what's that got to do with managing Microsoft?
> Point being: the US (and western world) does not need more address space.
No. Point being: the USA and the rest of the West may have enough time to make an orderly transition if we get our shit together.
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I don't think anyone has a problem with that. What we do have a problem with is the claim some are making that life is not possible without NAT and that IPv6 does not permit NAT.
Get a free tunnel from SixXS or Hurricane Electric.
Only six servers and they have a crash every few years? On a control system? Scary is right.
> Sounds like an expensive option.
Any computer capable of running Debian can be an IPv6 compatible router.
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I'm sure they will be when the machines develop and implement them for us in a thousand years or so (and they will probably bitch about how those stupid humans made the transition harder than necessary with their stupid design of IPv6.)