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My how things change. At one point in the late 90s, I had an entire MIT Class C subnet at my house. Now, I've got 5 static IPs from Verizon FiOS on some ancie
by payne92 10y ago
My how things change. At one point in the late 90s, I had an entire MIT Class C subnet at my house.
Now, I've got 5 static IPs from Verizon FiOS on some ancient grandfathered plan. Years ago, they "changed" the addresses, prompting me to ask, "what part of 'static' is not clear?"
- smaili 10y agoJust curious, was it a breach of contract or did they have one of those lovely small printed clauses no one ever reads :)
- AdamJacobMuller 10y agoMost of them are 'reasonably' static, with (relatively generous?) provisions for notice and migration.
- payne92 10y agoI believe the contract is silent on the "static-ness" of static IPs.
- plandis 10y agoIf you can find an ISP that supports IPv6 quite a few of them (maybe all?) support prefix delegation. A /64 isn't uncommon from ISPs in Seattle.
- AdamJacobMuller 10y agoFIOS doesn't support V6. At all. In 2017.
- darklajid 10y agoNo friend of mine is on ipv6. No mobile phone I've seen supports ipv6. Having an ipv6 prefix is useless to me (as someone that is behind the abomination called CGNAT / 'Dual Stack Lite').
- trollied 10y agoiOS supports IPv6, and has done for some time: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=05042016a https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=05042016a
- flyinghamster 10y agoMy T-Mobile (US) Android phone definitely supports IPv6 - but only as a native device, not as a hotspot. Anything that connects to the hotspot gets an RFC1918 address with NAT.
- wolrah 10y ago> No mobile phone I've seen supports ipv6. T-Mobile LTE has been exclusively IPv6 on most phones for some time now. I'm pretty sure other mobile providers have done the same or are in the process of doing so. All my Android devices have supported IPv6 as long as I've had it running on my network. I don't have an iOS device but since T-Mobile sells them I assume they work with IPv6.
- selectodude 10y agoVerizon LTE is IPv6, too
- zkms 10y ago> I don't have an iOS device but since T-Mobile sells them I assume they work with IPv6. My iphone works perfectly with T-Mobile's ipv6 network -- it gets a v6 address of its own and also anyone who tethers to it also gets v6 address.
- darklajid 10y agoI replied to a different post in this thread, but ipv6 isn't available for me (Germany). Sure, my devices would support it..
- RKearney 10y ago> No mobile phone I've seen supports ipv6. How hard have you looked? My iPhone has native IPv6 on Verizon.
- apaprocki 10y agoI have Time Warner Cable in NYC and get a delegated /64. FiOS definitely does not support IPv6 at all.
- deathanatos 10y agoComcast (I have a business class plan; this is not their residential offering) also changed my "static" IPv4 address at one point, as well. They claimed to have allocated the same IP to two different accounts.
- wj 10y agoI still remember the day that happened to us. It was a Friday and not only did we lose data but our phones were VoIP so no clients could get through to use either. I spent much of the day troubleshooting with their support before I figured out to ask them to tell me what five static IPs they have listed for us in their system. Turns out they changed with no notification and even their internal people didn't know. Spent more time trying to get our old IP addresses back as some of our vendors had IP restrictions and some of our partners accessed one of our internal servers. That turned out to "not be possible" so spent Monday filling out forms to update to the new IPs everywhere else. I think I still have one of their senior VPs cell phone numbers in my phone from the late calls that night including a couple while I was having a party at my house.