[Psi-devel] IPv6 Support in Psi

[Matthias Wimmer]

Hi Norman!

Norman Rasmussen schrieb:
> Same in South Africa.  I have a scheduled task that forces the
> reconnect before the ISP does, and it seems that I can keep the same
> IP address for a few weeks if I'm lucky.

No way here to get the same IP address again. (Well with the exception 
of some very small ISPs that offer you to get always the same address by 
paying extra money.)

> btw, I'm not sure what firewall you're using, but another trick I
> found (with iptables), was to use static nat, instead of dynamic nat -
> i.e. recreate the SNAT entries in the ip-up script, instead of a long
> lived MASQ entry.  This way the active nat connections are not dropped
> when the connection restarts as long as your IP stays the same.

Well even if you could get back the same IP address, using IPv6 seems to 
be much more comfortable. :-)


Matthias