G T Smith wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
The problem is that consumer level routers don't support IPv6, at least in routing & NAT functions.
NAT = evil; there is no NAT in IPv6. One of the advantages of a huge address space is that you can get rid of NAT.
Quite so. With IPv6, users are assigned a *HUGE* number of IP addresses, which can be used as desired.
The wiki article below seems to suggest that implementing a form of NAT for IPv6 is under discussion by the IETF...
I have heard about that too and don't understand why they'd need it. They certainly don't need the address space NAT provides and if they don't want a computer to be addressable from the net, then don't give it an address that's reachable from the net. A computer can be assigned the IPv6 equivalent of link local addresses or an address that's available only on the local network etc. I have heard about using addresses that don't contain the computer MAC address for security concerns, but that's a whole different issue. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org