<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137501">I'm not sure what Teksavvy does, but an ISP is supposed to provide at least a /64 prefix,which provides 18.4 billion, billion addresses. I get a /56 from Rogers, which is 256 times the size of a /64.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137499"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137497">Since it's available, why not give it a try? That's the direction the world's moving, so no point in hanging back.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137495"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137378"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137379"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137390" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137389"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137388"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137387"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137512" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137511"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137510">From:</span></b> Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137515"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137514">To:</span></b> talk@gtalug.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 31, 2017 10:29 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137518"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137517">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GTALUG] Router advice sought<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485888428877_137409"><br>On 2017-01-31 06:08 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Since you're with Teksavvy over ADSL, you'll want to get one that<br clear="none">> supports IPv6.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yes, it does, and I think that I do have an IPv6 address somewhere. But<br clear="none">I've got a static IPv4 address from Teksavvy, and that's about the limit<br clear="none">of what I understand/need.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(bit of a change from 1992, when as a founding member of the UK's first<br clear="none">ISP [Demon] I was assigned a block of addresses larger than most<br clear="none">countries could hope to have.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The router's working nicely now, and is just a shade faster than the old<br clear="none">one. Shame it's so big - would make a nice cat warmer.<div class="yqt7591460694" id="yqtfd83517"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Stewart<br clear="none"><br clear="none">---<br clear="none">Talk Mailing List<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>