Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.
>
Here's an article about Comcast's Dual Stack Lite:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/072108-comcast-ipv6.html
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