Subj : Echolink and Metronet
To   : Brian Indy
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Feb 16 2022 22:18:41

Hello Brian,

16 Feb 22 22:11, you wrote to All:

 BI> Just found out something today, I recently switched to Metronet fiber,
 BI> and my Echolink program stopped working. So I went in to the router
 BI> and tried to setup port forwarding, it would not work. Tried it many
 BI> times, same bad result. Called Metronet...unless you buy a static IP
 BI> for $120 a year, you can't port forward.  Metronet uses something
 BI> called CGNAT - Carrier Grade NAT  and this is why you can't port
 BI> forward using their dynamic assigned external IP.

Thanks for the warning.  CGNAT is one of the huge drawbacks of IPv6 and one of 
the many reasons why I am not a fan of IPv6.  I am using Spectrum that still 
uses IPv4 with NAT which means they can support a LOT of internal IPv4 
customers easily.  I have a pfSense box as my edge firewall device that does 
the port forwarding stuff.

 BI> I wish I had known that before. I don't use echolink much. So I'm not
 BI> paying $120 for a static IP from Metronet.

Why in the hell they want $120 for a single static IP on an IPv6 network is 
beyond me.  Considering IPv6 can supposedly support 340 trillion trillion 
trillion IP addresses, giving someone one static IP shouldn't be much.  Sounds 
like their main "front end" to the internet is IPv4 and they have very limited 
IPv4 addresses available to them.

What's your call, BTW?

-- Sean

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