Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu May 19 15:38:43 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:10:41AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/cablecos-lose-decision-before-crtc/143158
> >
> >This would be nice.  If this works out we would be able to have static
> >IPs on cable modem service from teksavvy and such.  That would be nice.
> >
> 
> What would be nicer would be the ISPs getting in gear with IPv6.
> Instead of a stingy (soon to run out) single IPv4 address, you'd get
> a huge subnet (minimum 2^64 addresses, mine's 2^72).  Even if an ISP
> handed out single addresses, there'd still be no shortage, as their
> subnet would also be a minimum of 2^64 or 18446744073709551616
> addresses.  So they could give you as many as you wanted.

Would be nice, especially since an ISP can not give end users less than
2^64 addresses.

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