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Running out of IPV4 Adresses
Soulreaper77:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on October 23, 2010, 10:49:23 AM ---
--- Quote from: sanguis on October 23, 2010, 03:39:29 AM ---So a lot more connections; there's talk of giving individual light-bulbs IP addresses so they can all be controlled by your brand new Smart Home Computer.
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Unless you need your light bulb to directly connect to the internet, even IPv4 is beyond overkill for this kind of purpose.
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But there are experimental drinking glasses that connect to the internet and when you and your SO are really far apart and drink from the glass, it lights up. So when glasses are used to connect to the internet then there will also probably be some use for a light bulb to connect to the internet.
For example when you are listening to music you'll want some flashy light show. No problem, just press the DISCO MODE button on you light bulb and it'll connect to your computer and flash on and off on your music. And thus no need of buying expensive disco lighting anymore. :D
nstgc:
--- Quote from: boxer4 on October 22, 2010, 08:35:31 PM ---would like to add:
All p2p users should be pro-ipv6.
The current solution to share ip addresses is limited - with nat, p2p breaks if few or nobody has an ip address that can listen on user defined ports.
Else there would be no way to connect to each other...
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I heard the opposite. I read somewhere that IPv6 will have anti P2P protocols.
Sosseres:
Dynamic IPs are good for p2p, something they can easily stop using in IPv6.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on October 23, 2010, 06:54:51 PM ---Dynamic IPs are good for p2p, something they can easily stop using in IPv6.
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Why?
In my experience, dynamic IPs are worse for P2P. When I had DSL and dynamic IP, if my router lost the PPPoE connection and reconnected, it got a new IP and torrents would not work until uT connected to the tracker and updated the IP. Later when I got static IP this was eliminated.
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on October 23, 2010, 07:07:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sosseres on October 23, 2010, 06:54:51 PM ---Dynamic IPs are good for p2p, something they can easily stop using in IPv6.
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Why?
In my experience, dynamic IPs are worse for P2P. When I had DSL and dynamic IP, if my router lost the PPPoE connection and reconnected, it got a new IP and torrents would not work until uT connected to the tracker and updated the IP. Later when I got static IP this was eliminated.
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If you have a static IP you are you, if they log torrents for an entire year and you have the same IP during that time they need to identify you for one IP. If you have a dynamic and change once every week then they get the information for one week. Unless the ISP logs all of your IPs during that entire time, which costs money.
It is bad since it basically gives away information that can be used to track you.
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