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On 29/07/2020 16:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:59:11 BST Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> Pricing isn't based on cost. Pricing is based on what people are |
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>> willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6 |
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>> address, therefore static IPv6 addresses cost extra. |
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> Aren't all IPv6 addresses static? Mine certainly are. |
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I think there's static, and there's effectively static. |
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If your router is running 24/7, then the IP won't change even if it's |
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DHCP. But your router only needs to be switched off or otherwise off the |
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network for the TTL (time to live), and DHCP will assign you a different |
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IP when it comes back. |
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That's server-side configuration, so if the ISP doesn't elicitly |
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allocate you an address in their DHCP setup, what you've got is |
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effectively static not really static. |
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But it really should be so damn simple - take the ISP's network address, |
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add the last three octets of the customer's router or something like |
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that, and there's the customer's network v6 assigned to the customer's |
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router. One fixed address that won't change unless the customer changes |
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router or ISP. |
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I need to learn how v6 works ... :-) |
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Cheers, |
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