[Gllug] IPv6 and firewalls

[John Winters]

Nix wrote:
> 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.

But just think - if you could persuade people to pay, say, 1p per IPv6
address you could bankrupt entire countries!

John
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