On 09/08/2016 02:53 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
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.
According to Vint Cerf, IPv4 was never intended to be anything more than a demonstration system. However, it "escaped" and became what it is now. These days VC will tell you to move to IPv6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
But we still had firewalls.
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