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> so no way to enforce one-machine-per-residence limitations... Eh? Have you ever seen an ISP that did this and wasn't foiled by attaching a NATting router to

> so no way to enforce one-machine-per-residence limitations... Eh? Have you ever seen an ISP that did this and wasn't foiled by attaching a NATting router to the ISP-provided bridge device? [0] (If the ISP is providing the router, then it's trivial to only allow traffic from either the first MAC address you see, or the MAC address configured by the customer during some setup procedure.) [0] DSL or cable modem or whatever.

tremon 11y ago
Of course it's technically trivial. But that didn't stop PHB's from inserting such language in consumer contracts, so why should we assume that the same PHB's would happily embrace IPv6, since "with IPv6, we must provide every one of our customers with 2^80 addresses"?