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Not only do you know it, you get it tattooed on your body. If there's no need to change IP addresses, you might as well make it permanent.
by mryall 16y ago
Not only do you know it, you get it tattooed on your body. If there's no need to change IP addresses, you might as well make it permanent.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoIPv6 addresses are statically allocated (well, in the IPv6 proponents' designs - in reality, we may end up with DHCPv6 and the like), but almost always provider-allocated (PA), not provider independent (PI); so you'll have to give it back to your ISP when you switch. This is a good thing, by the way; PI space consumes memory on the backbone routers (they can't just send it to your ISP, after all - the whole point is that you can take it with you). Of course, PA space is just part of a larger allocation to your provider. In other words, don't get the tattoo.