Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1826 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anton Aylward wrote:

> IPv6 may be a good thing, but this slagging of NAT is not necessary.
> There are and there will continue to be good reasons or people to use
> NAT.

+1.

> I will go so far as to predict that even with IPv6in place, there will
> be something like "network 10" - private address spaces, and hence
> something like NAT.  Its just too convenient to have addresses that
> cannot be - will not be - routed.

unique local addresses, I think that is. 

> Please note:  I am no denigrating IPv6 or saying that one _should_ use
> NAT. Nor am I saying that NAT should be forced on organizations to 
> further (asymptotically) delay the exhaustion of the IPv4 address
> space. I *am* saying that slagging NAT is not a good argument in
> favour of IPv6. 

Same here. 



-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (14.0°C)

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