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 Message 12627 
 deon to Sean Dennis 
 Echolink and Metronet 
 17 Feb 22 20:47:35 
 
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  Re: Echolink and Metronet
  By: Sean Dennis to Brian Indy on Wed Feb 16 2022 10:18 pm

 > Thanks for the warning.  CGNAT is one of the huge drawbacks of IPv6 and one
of  the many reasons why I am not a fan of IPv6.  I am

 > Why in the hell they want $120 for a single static IP on an IPv6 network
is  beyond me.  Considering IPv6 can supposedly support 340
 > trillion trillion  trillion IP addresses, giving someone one static IP
shouldn't be much.  Sounds  like their main "front end" to the
 > internet is IPv4 and they have very limited  IPv4 addresses available to
them.

I'm thinking you've got confused.

CGNAT is an IPv4 solution due to the lack of IPv4 addresses - where the answer
is IPv6 isnt it?

I've not heard of ISP's selling single static IPv6 addresses - I thought most
gave you a /64, /60 or /56 as part of the service you get with them.


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