IPv4 to IPv6...

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Can you summarise what you were trying to do and how you were
> blocked.?
>    
Among other things, I was setting up a device called a "PBX extender".  
This is used when a company wants some phone at a different location 
from where the PBX is located.  One end looks likes digital phones to 
the PBX and the other, like a PBX to the phones.  I've connected them 
via ISDN, fractional T1, short haul microwave, fibre and also IP.  The 
modems that Bell likes to supply use NAT, even on single port models and 
DHCP, rather than have the computer or other device configure for 
PPPoE.  These modems hand out the RFC1918 addresses, which are 
unsuitable.  They had another modem available, that would do what was 
necessary, but sometimes they delivered the wrong one and I would have 
the "pleasure" of calling Sympatico help to get a replacement.  Bell 
would provide a static IP to business customers on (extra cost?) 
request.  I have Rogers at home and my DHCP address is virtually static, 
and I also have a consistent host name that doesn't change, unless I 
replace equipment and wind up with different MAC addresses.  This 
contrasts with Bell, where your host name depends on your IP address.


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