ADSL

[Derek Moore]

> Right now people are really excited about getting on the web, so naturally
> ISP's/cable/phone companies etc.. can cash in on providing connections to
> the web, however, following the laws of economics, human wants are never
> satisfied... What happens when people( esp. home consumers ) are maxed out
> on surfing and now want to host their own web sites on their own web
> servers, DHCP will not do.....
>
> Now the loopholes I was referring to are mainly infrastructure loops or at
> least a contingency plan to change if users demand more. I may be wrong but
> trends indicate that more and more people would like to host their own web
> servers.....

Yeah. I've actually thought about this myself. The only real problem
being that IPv4 sucks. *grin* It really does. I mean... It's good, but it
doesn't scale. That's the entire reason dynamic IPs were introduced in the
first place. Because we were running short of IP addresses on the
Internet. As far as IPv4 goes, we'll always have dynamic addressing
around, because it just can't scale without the use of dynamic assignment.

But! The birth of IPv6 has saved us all... I don't know when and I don't
really know how, but some day we'll make the change to IPv6. And IPv6 is
beautiful. It's superly huge, man. *grin* And it's not too far off in the
horizon either. Internet Direct/Grapevine is currently an IPv6 test bed.
We are a member of 6Bone [www.6bone.com], which is part of the IPv6
network that is tunnelled through IPv4. It's pretty rad too. The IPv6
subnet thingy that Internet Direct/Grapevine has been given has twice
number of IPs that the entire Internet has today. And we don't even have a
fraction of a fraction of a percent of the number of possible IP address
under IPv6.

But 6Bone and IPv6 are pretty cool. IP addresses are in hex and seperated
by colons [no more dotted quads (now it looks more something like:
3ffe:0400:0100:f101:0:0:0:1)]. We have a Cisco router running beta IPv6
code and several workstations on our network setup for IPv6 [mine
included].

Now, once we change to IPv6, static IPs will be the only thing and death
will automagically fall upon dynamic IPs. Heck, we could have one IP for
every human, animal, insect, and electronic device on our planet almost.

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