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Quote: Originally Posted by jayhammy I'm always amazed at how Appleinsider is so blatantly biased against Android. They minimize everything about Android that's good. When I compare this site to, say, AndroidCentral.com, this difference is stark.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tzeshan Google should pay because the Android OS allows tethering easily. The cell phone carriers can not disable it. Wrong. Actually, carriers can disable tethering on Android. Since Android is open, the carrie…
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Quote: Originally Posted by teckstud I wish you would stop repeating that quote of "the Hummer". That NY Times article was not well written and totally biased against iPhone users. How AT&T could not have anticipated this surge for over 2 yea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by niblick The point of the original article is that the Back to my Mac service can help to solve the v4 address problem I didn't get that out of the original article at all. Frankly, I thought the article was confused…
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Quote: Originally Posted by niblick The v6 argument requires co-operation from ISPs, content providers and clients. Apple has some of the client market and a very small amount of the content market. They may produce 'routers' (in that an Airport …
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Quote: Originally Posted by walkerdarin2003 There are supposedly enough IPs so DHCP isn't needed. Everyone and their mother will have 10 IPs. The number of available addresses is an independent concern from how to configure those addresses on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djsincla I was a network engineering manager at a Fortune 100 corporation and we managed 18 Class B public address spaces of which around 5 class C's were publically broadcasted. Then why did you have the extra publ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Axcess99 NAT is not a firewall service that translates address, and nowhere is it described as such nor was it developed to solve that problem. It simply translates addresses. The fact that the NAT process limits conn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Apple has serious problems with NATing because of their Network Stack from BSD doesn't handle virtual interfaces like Linux or Solaris, or other non-BSD based OSs. Could you elaborate on those problems, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nojetlag So then pls tell me why the soo advanced Apple forgot about IPv6 when it comes to the iPhone ? I'm sure they didn't forget about it. I'm sure they left it out on purpose, probably for fear of it causing pro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TopherUC Perhaps stateless autoconfig is reasonable for a small/home network, but it's *not* reasonable for a large campus environment. I agree with you. OS X needs DHCPv6 support. I was responding to the origina…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kiwi66 The mechanisms built into IPv6 to let IPv6 contact IPv4 and to create automatic tunnels are there, built into many dual-stack routers already. What mechanism would that be? I'm not familiar with one. IPv6 and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jcassara Yes, but the DNS itself is not doing the background work exclusively. I don't follow. Mac OS X does not come with a DHCPv6 client. It either uses stateless autoconfiguration or has a manually configured …
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign NAT is pretty darned useful for other purposes than just security by obscurity and on networks that just might have unsecured Macs on them too. It's not like we've not seen exploits on Quicktime have we? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Booga When the article refers to a common (and very valid) security practice as "wearing diapers", NAT is not a security feature. It is an address conservation system. If you want to prevent users from connecting to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1Gremlin Apple's internal firewall is a joke, so tunneling IPv6 traffic is asking for some serious issues. Safari broswer and OS can fully run IPv6 unlike Windows Vista/IE junk. Oh besides only two or three US ISP ve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jcassara DHCPv6 will (allegedly) handle it, not the domain name system. Hm? You still need AAAA and ip6.arpa records in DNS.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Maybe people don't want every device on their home network to be addressable by the world. In theory it should be safe, if every device vendor implements proper security, but in practice they don't. If you don…