Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>
>    

Comcat, in the U.S. is doing something interesting.  One thing that's 
driving their switch to IPv6 is there's simply not enough RFC1918 IPv4 
address to address only their equipment, let alone subscriber needs.  
So, they've moved to something called "Dual Stack Lite" where the 
customer gets IPv6 addresses and for connection to IPv4 addresses they 
use a 4in6 tunnel to a NAT server and then to the IPv4 internet.

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