<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>I am not so well educated on the technical nuances of IPV6. I notice that you have described ipV4 as "static" - Is ipV6 dynamic, is it designed to be "not-static" ? <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>it's not so cut and dried as "more or less static"<br><br>For example if you have a statically assigned v4 block (may be just one address) from your provider, you will probably get a statically assigned IPv6 block (the minimum size for residentail services seems to be a /64 (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IPv6 addresses).<br>
<br>if you have IPv4 via DHCP, then you may or may not get a dynamic assignment of IPv6 the same way.<br><br><a href="http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6AutoconfigurationandRenumbering.htm">http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6AutoconfigurationandRenumbering.htm</a><br>
<br>and <br><br><a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=443">10+ answers to your questions about IPv6 | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com</a><br><br>will be helpful here.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>
McTim<br><a href="http://stateoftheinternetin.ug">http://stateoftheinternetin.ug</a><br><br>