On 09/08/2016 02:34 PM, gumb wrote:
Does that mean that IPv6 solves all these woes, or does it still have to work around some of them for backwards compatibility?
In short, ipv6 means that we have enough addresses that we don't need NAT. Back in the days before the commercialization of the internet went hog wild and everyone and every household was demanding connectivity, and IPV4 was relatively unpopulated, sites had subnets, perhaps a 'Class C" and every host was directly addressable from the outside, provided that you were on a routing grouping that allowed you to talk to the remote site; say a university in England to one in California. BTDT. But we still had firewalls.
I'd been wondering if trying to do all this with IPv6 would be more simple or more complicated.
In one sense the expanded address space is going to overwhelm some minds that are too detailed oriented. Its a sheer multiplication of scale. But I'm sure we'll develop some 'object' related software to deal with that. Also, a lot of prior knowledge is now going to become redundant. Aka irrelevant. That always upsets people; 'technological redundancy'. Cf The original 'Luddites". Every technical shift does this. But we get over it; "where are all the unemployed {horse grooms, night-soil carriers, train engineers, butlers and maids}?
But I think again the remote router throws a rock into the road there because it appears to not support IPv6. At least, there is nothing in the printed manual or configuration that mentions it.
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