An IP Address For Every Light Bulb 457
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday NXP and Green Wave Reality announced to the world that they plan to give every lightbulb an IPV6 address. Hot on the heels of Google's 900 mhz announcement, Green Wave Reality already has iPhone / Android / and Web-based support. Looks like the lighting wars have started."
Re:Wrong place (Score:5, Informative)
"Can you imagine? Your ISP decides to give you a new prefix and you'd have to program it into your switches so they can talk to the right lightbulbs again."
You probably wouldn't want each light/fixture to have a public IP, just private. Let the control unit in your house have a public IP.
"One of the benefits of NAT was the internal network was separated from the external - changes to the external IP addresses didn't influence the internal ones"
At least with Vista/7, each machine gets 3 IPs by default. A private IP, a static Public IP, and a random public IP that changes avery few minutes and refuses incoming connections. You don't need to worry about your private IPs changing, just your public IPs. No biggie.
"Sure you can assign more IPv6 addresses to ensure that your home server is always FC00::100, but having to know all the IP addresses of each machine when diagnosing things just gets to be a pain"
Thank god for name-to-IP protocols that have been standard for the past 2 decades.
The transition will be annoying, but once we get use to IPv6, it will be easier.