IPv4 to IPv6...

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>

| 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.

Are you saying that PBX extenders would do PPPoE but could not
function as ADSL modems?  What an odd capability.

Were the "good" modems just modems and the "bad" ones modem + PPPoE
client + router-that-cannot-be-configured-usefully?

| 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.

True.  Not quite static.  It changes every year or two for me.
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