[Gllug] IPv6 and firewalls

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Aug 16 19:58:18 UTC 2009


On 15 Aug 2009, Jason Clifford uttered the following:

> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 19:16 +0100, Nix wrote:
>> Exactly. If your ISP bills you for IPv6 IPs, they're probably crap and
>> you should switch. OTOH, if they're that crap they're probably a
>> monopoly and you *can't*.
>
> It's not entirely unreasonable to charge for extra IPs as there is an
> administrative overhead to allocating them.

Ah. I interpreted this as billing you *per IP* which is lunacy with
IPv6.
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