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   Hello Brian,   
      
   16 Feb 22 22:11, you wrote to All:   
      
    BI> Just found out something today, I recently switched to Metronet fiber,   
    BI> and my Echolink program stopped working. So I went in to the router   
    BI> and tried to setup port forwarding, it would not work. Tried it many   
    BI> times, same bad result. Called Metronet...unless you buy a static IP   
    BI> for $120 a year, you can't port forward.  Metronet uses something   
    BI> called CGNAT - Carrier Grade NAT  and this is why you can't port   
    BI> forward using their dynamic assigned external IP.   
      
   Thanks for the warning.  CGNAT is one of the huge drawbacks of IPv6 and one of    
   the many reasons why I am not a fan of IPv6.  I am using Spectrum that still    
   uses IPv4 with NAT which means they can support a LOT of internal IPv4    
   customers easily.  I have a pfSense box as my edge firewall device that does    
   the port forwarding stuff.   
      
    BI> I wish I had known that before. I don't use echolink much. So I'm not   
    BI> paying $120 for a static IP from Metronet.   
      
   Why in the hell they want $120 for a single static IP on an IPv6 network is    
   beyond me.  Considering IPv6 can supposedly support 340 trillion trillion    
   trillion IP addresses, giving someone one static IP shouldn't be much.  Sounds    
   like their main "front end" to the internet is IPv4 and they have very limited    
   IPv4 addresses available to them.   
      
   What's your call, BTW?   
      
   -- Sean   
      
   ... I pulled a muscle digging for gold.  Just a miner injury.   
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