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With most people leaving their router switched on all the time, the difference between a static and dynamic IPv4 address from the point of view of the ISP is pr
by Symbiote 4y ago
With most people leaving their router switched on all the time, the difference between a static and dynamic IPv4 address from the point of view of the ISP is probably marginal.
- nfriedly 4y agoYeah, that's true enough. I guess the point I was trying to make is that I think IPv6 is a better solution to their problem of not having enough IPv4 addresses.
- foepys 4y agoIn Germany all bigger DSL providers still disconnect you once a day and issue new IPs. Bad for at home hosting, good for privacy.
- Wubdidu 4y agoIs that so? At least Telekom doesn't do that for IPv4 anymore. They do have a 24h dynamic prefix for IPv6 though (which feels very weird, considering they stopped doing that for IPv4)
- dark-star 4y agoThe ephemeral IPv6 addresses are just the IPv6 privacy extensions at work. They're just following RFCs I guess their router stack provides this for free, while the "Zwangstrennung" (disconnect every 24h) was implemented somewhere on their side. So it's actually easier now for them
- apk17 4y agoPartially. Telekom keeps up the line for months at a time. I guess that is due to telephony being done via VoIP, and they don't want to interrupt your late night calls. Others, even Congstar (which is a cheap telekom brand), do 24h disconnects with a new v4 address, and no v6 at all. The DSL I use gives me a fixed v4 and v6 range, but still needs to do the daily disconnects.
- ranger_danger 4y agohow do you know what ALL of the them do??
- codebje 4y agoThe difference is typically between a static _public_ IPv4 address or a dynamic _private_ IPv4 address, and CGNAT sharing public IPv4 addresses across subscribers.