Re:DDoS Letter to Chairman Wheeler
by 0xfeba on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:07PM
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Maybe he's an IPv6 fan.
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ISPs wouldn't assign addresses to the IoT devices with IPv6 either...
Re:DDoS Letter to Chairman Wheeler
by dronemallone on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:30PM
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You can do it (by that I mean NOW) with DHCP-PD (prefix delegation). Router asks for a range of addresses from the ISP which it then assigns to the IoT devices on the inside.
Re:DDoS Letter to Chairman Wheeler
by angry-hacker on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:14PM
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But who does? Or what factor decides what my iot's device ipv6 will be?
Devices tend to self-assign IPv6 addresses using SLAAC, but the router would still have MAC-to-IP mappings in its neighbor table. Or some cases the router assigns it using DHCPv6.
Re:DDoS Letter to Chairman Wheeler
by johncolanduoni on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:13PM
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Just to clear things up for people unfamiliar with IPv6, the ISP does have some input in this process: they give your router a unique prefix (basically a subnet) which the router delegates to the devices in your network.