Rüdiger Meier wrote:
Ok, I give up. Still don't know how you would do it but now I believe you could manage to give me /48 as a subnet of your /56.
When have I ever claimed that? I have said that ISPs can hand out lots of /48, /56 or /64 subnets, without danger of running out of address space in the foreseeable future.
And morever if you can't give everybody a whole subnet then you
probably want to restrict every user to a single IP because you as the ISP have to log the user/IP/time map. (At least in Germany you have to do this). Logging this map would be much harder if these 6000 users are using random adresses from the shared subnet.
Compare that to what happens now with IPv4 and NAT. The ISP cannot monitor each individual computer behind the NAT router, only the aggregate traffic from the router.
That's why they give different IPs to each customer and don't NAT you at all. You are NATing your machines. And you are responsible for everything your machines did on the net unless you can proof that it was your grandma.
You were claiming that ISPs could not monitor the traffic with so many addresses, as they do now with IPv4. There is no difference between doing this with NAT or not. They only have to monitor your traffic. With IPv4 and NAT, there is no connection between IP address and hardware behind the NAT. With IPv6 and random addresses, the same applies. With MAC addresses, then each computer could be tracked, which, incidentally, is the reason the random address method was developed.
Maybe your rubbish Windows 7 or Suse can't do that out of the box. But there is also NAT with IPv6 and there are even reasons why some people
The reason for NAT is to share IPv4 addresses, as there are not enough to go around. While it may be technically possible to NAT IPv6, it is not supported by the IETF, the people who write the Internet specs. Given the huge IPv6 address space, there is no reason to and NAT also breaks some protocols.
Lol, that's what I've expected to hear.
You mean the part where he said the problem was with his network? That's precisely my position.
need it.
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