On 3/21/24 15:33, John Levine wrote:

I think I still have my EISA Telebit modem card somewhere.

/me grumbles, cable modem cards, something else to mess with once I get
a CMTS of my own.



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It appears that Grant Taylor <[email protected]> said:

On 3/21/24 15:33, John Levine wrote:

I think I still have my EISA Telebit modem card somewhere.

/me grumbles, cable modem cards, something else to mess with once I get
a CMTS of my own.

Telebits were dialup modems that ran at 1200bps, which was pretty fast
for the time, and spoofed the uucp "g" protocol to send large blocks
of data faster than would otherwise be possible.

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On 3/22/24 20:24, John Levine wrote:

Telebits were dialup modems that ran at 1200bps, which was pretty
fast for the time, and spoofed the uucp "g" protocol to send large
blocks of data faster than would otherwise be possible.

/me facepalms

I don't know why I thought about cable modem cards.

I've heard about the Telebits and how they interposed themselves in the
line protocol.

I know multiple BBS SysOps that spoke of them fondly.



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It appears that Andy Valencia <[email protected]> said:

John Levine <[email protected]> writes:

Uh, what? Every Comcast cable modem I have used in recent years
provides IPv6 addresses.

I just double checked. The Comcast network is definitely only giving
my modem an IPv4 address. Do you mean your modem gives you an IPv6,
is it a true IPv6 address (as opposed to the IPv4 slice of the v6 space)?

Yes.

Can people in the outside world reach you at that IPv6 address?

I can't check since I'm no longer at a place with Comcast service but as
I recall I could ssh out to my servers over IPv6 and it worked.

Comcast is a whole bunch of cable systems glued together so it would
not be astonishing if some bits of it still don't have IPv6 support.
Or maybe you just need a new modem.

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