Subj : IPv6/4 indicator
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Wed Jun 22 2011 15:52:54

 MvdV> If you want IPv6 connectivity, "messing with IPv6 addresses" may be
 MvdV> unavoidable.

   It mustn't be. DHCP6 *does* exist.

 MvdV> How about that Linksys with USB addition? Have you give up?

   Yes, it still doesn't work for me -- and each time I try it I have a helluvva time getting the old dd-wrt back into it.

 MvdV> It seems to me that a dedicated router will makes things a lot more
 MvdV> transparent.

   Actually I feel more free when using a dedicated "real" computer for the job.

 MvdV> Now take a step back and try to look at it from the POV of those that
 MvdV> grew up with IPv4 *before* NAT.

   Why not go all the way to NetBIOS, where I started...? :)

 MvdV> In IPv6 every interface that needs internet access get its own unique
 MvdV> globally routable address.

   It's the *get* that I'm interested in, I don't want to *give* them their addresses.

 MvdV> Want to address systems by name? Use DNS. Yes, you have to enter the
 MvdV> names yourselves. But since all addresses are static, you only have to
 MvdV> do it once, as long as you do not change the interface card or change
 MvdV> provider, which would most likely change the subnet prefix.

   That's just it. I plug in my customers computers here on the LAN ever so often. And quite often I make a VMWare copy of them, so I don't have to change anything at all for them -- plus I can access their copy over the internet. But I don't want to mess with their network settings. More often than not those settings are even disabled.

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