On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:46:17 +0100 Tony Hoyle <t...@hoyle.me.uk> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25/04/2010 23:53, Mark Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:17:21 +0100 > > Tony Hoyle <t...@hoyle.me.uk> wrote: > > > > On 25/04/2010 03:01, Mark Smith wrote: > >>>> I'm a typical, fairly near future residential customer. I have a NAS > >>>> that I have movies stored on. My ISP delegates an IPv6 prefix to me with > >>>> a preferred lifetime of 60 minutes, and a valid lifetime of 90 minutes > > > > What ISP would put a 'lifetime' on your ipv6 prefix? > > > >> Because they loan it to you while you are their customer. Unless you > >> get PI, you don't 'own' your addresses, so you can't take them with > >> you when you change ISPs. In IPv4 a lifetime is implicit, which might be > >> as long/short as while your current connection is up, in IPv6 it is > >> explicit. > > > That's not what 'lifetime' means in this discusion. They're talking > about v6 addresses changing when you're with the same provider - indeed, > when logged into the same link even. That's insane. > How much do you understand about IPv6 addressing? Are you aware that IPv6 addresses have explicit preferred and valid lifetimes, and therefore they can change over time? > A change of ISP is a major change. Your ipv4 addresses will change as > well if you change ISP. > > As you say, if you don't want them to change get PI space. v6 and v4 > are no different in this respect. > > Tony > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL1NRJAAoJEJ1qCQ6ePCDUDeQH/07EZ2uBb5E2Is5juO1NCp4S > BYl36VnSIwmadVZpQxJ2tmrJB2jKGV2sV4K0hJ/QRHRNK0k0CJv2k/KWPf8sis6p > v6bDjnHD1k4bSTxuwEgRbAbPB5uDpRaw7F2ItgdNKGmf8KZh+tCX4uYZ3Pger0Q9 > BEE6y/PjDlgk+ZW+BX6Jgp5raBC9gWu0hiFIhiIRXxmUNgKmJpaRsc6DH5jC5Hch > BhrDxvHZCMNpG2KH32w9D955FSHBCt/ih/hNEB36yDTiln4gMx99jKquECeZrujJ > zX1+sZ0DtLGR3oFjXyXfVS+8Y13i2fLYfQ1g5l/dhXGGs+Nwwb0ska8K+D5Tza0= > =cgpi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >