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