Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:18:51PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> I believe single addresses are permitted, as the tunnel broker I
> deal with can provide both subnets and single addresses.  My home
> network gets a subnet, but my notebook, when away from home can get
> a single address.  Their client can be configured to do either.
> However, I agree about them handing out subnet to home & business
> users.  The IPv6 address space is so huge, there's absolutely no
> reason to be stingy with addresses.

Well it can certainly be done, but I don't believe it was ever intended
to be used that way in general.  For tunnels it does somewhat make sense
to offer.

I don't think it is an option for non tunnels though.

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Len Sorensen
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