John Calcote writes:
I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors
offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the
most "bang for the buck", so to speak. These companies don't offer
the multiple-static-ip-address option today because most ISP's don't
offer it to home users and home (SOHO) users represent the target
market.
It is unlikely that ISPs will ever offer static IPs or multiple IPs to
home users at any time in the future for free. They will continue to
charge heavy premiums for such "professional" features, with or
without IPv6.
That said, they *would* offer these features if SOHO users
were constantly frustrated about the fact that they can't make use
of the multiple static addresses that their ISP provides them
because of limitations in their router equipment...
SOHO users probably won't be willing to pay 500% more for multiple or
static IPs, anyway.
The fact is, _when_ IPv6 becomes truly mainstream and ISP's begin
to offer multiple static addresses because they can ...
ISPs can do that already, but they charge a great deal for it, and
they probably always will.
AT&T used to charge for any telephone color other than black, even
though the cost of producing a telephone was the same no matter what
color it was.
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