Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users

Spacecase writes "Comcast announced the first group of trial users have been activated on their IPv6 Native Dual Stack solution. Considering the recent news about IPv4 addresses becoming scarce, this looks to be one of the better solutions to get out of the IPv4 problems."

This is ridiculous

[ugen]

"Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses. "

So, effectively, they just shortened an IPv6 address to 64 bit - and allocation haven't even started yet in earnest.
This is the problem with people. Even technical people (and moreover - everyone else) will waste any resource (including artificial resource) until there is scarcity regulated by monetary means. If that's the way IPv6 will be assigned - /64 to an individual user, /32 to a corporation, /12 to interplanetary internet or whatever other cooky idea there is - these addresses will run out in a jiffy. And then we'll be trading in these and IPv4 just the same.

Re:Slightly unrelated

[ugen]

I want to go to a *single* IP address that represents all systems on my network. Same thing I am doing today with IPv4. I don't like people outside to be able to enumerate devices on my network - and using a single address is a first step (tweaking IP stacks to change signature and replacing browser agent string helps too).

I kinda expected that instead of "this is how you do this" (which is what freedom of choice of technology should be about) I am going to get the usual ideologically painted answers about how "that's not what you need".

I think I found the answer though - OpenBSD will gladly masquerade either ipv4 or ipv6. I suppose I may have to go with a slightly higher end router box (rather than the usual Linksys dd-wrt re-flash)

Too bad Linux/netfilter won't but ideology takes precedence there.

Re:Comcast really?

[Belial6]

Same experience for me. No filtering, not throttling, nothing. I think their crappy residential service was only $10 less expensive a month. If you go Comcast, go Business class.