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IPv6 supports NAT...

• giobox 9y ago
  True, but I think its fair to say the crazy wide proliferation of IPv4 NAT in consumer routers wouldn't have been nearly as large if IPv4 address exhaustion hadn't been a very real thing forcing hands. IPv6, at least for the foreseeable future, doesn't have this motivating factor for using NAT. I completely agree in principle with the old adage "NAT is not a firewall", but in reality it often effectively works as one for many consumers, many of whom probably don't have the technical knowledge to understand the protection it has indirectly afforded them for the past however many years.