Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2023-04-28 at 09:39 -0700, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 4/28/23 09:01, Per Jessen wrote:
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
* avoid problems when the ipv4 pool is exhausted.
But that's why God invented NAT!
NAT is a royal PITA. We accept it because there is, there wasn't, no alternative.
To be honest, I'm not sure whether to agree or not :-) I can't say I have ever had any unresolvable problems with NAT.
For example, with IPv6 you can send email directly from your machine to somebody else direct, without any intermediate mail server collecting it.
Um, same with IPv4.
Or phone them.
Um, same with IPv4. (for inbound telephony, you need something to keep the connection open). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.1°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes