Per Jessen said the following on 09/11/2010 09:07 AM:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-09-09 08:56, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
And yet, IPv6 is so easy. It's a lot easier to configure than IPv4. ISPs may have to update some equipment, but in the mean time,
The thing is - their customers will have to as well. Ye olde Zyxel ADSL router doesn't do IPv6 (but it does the rest of the internet very well). New customers would have to pay extra to get a box that does IPv6 - it's a steep path, so as long as an ISP is not actually running out of addresses, well ...
That's the crux. And those modems are often supplied by the ISP, so the cost would be on them.
In Switzerland the modem is paid for by the customer, but either way there's an extra cost.
Please note: "supplied by" and "paid for by" are not the same thing. My cable provider supplies a modem. I pay for that. I can pay a monthly fee or buy it from them. There are lots of cheaper cable modems, but they refuse to support them and threaten to discontinue service if I use them. As it stands, they only support connections from PCs and MACs. That I have a firewall and that I use Linux means they won't support me when I have problems. This seems to be typical of consumer grade support from the major providers. Their official stance and what happens in reality are different, though. Many of support people are network geeks or other techie variants and use Linux at home and can be quite reasonable and break-out of the "script". But the modem is paid for by the customer. One way or another. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org