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And migrating is all cost no benefit. And the problems ipv6 was intended to solve have long since been addressed better by other means (eg NAT).
by davros 9y ago
And migrating is all cost no benefit. And the problems ipv6 was intended to solve have long since been addressed better by other means (eg NAT).
- snuxoll 9y agoNAT doesn't solve the issues with IPv4, it merely delayed them. IPv6 is still the future, but everyone from ISP's to switch and router manufacturers have been dragging their feet on a real push to get us off IPv4. Hell, there are still modern switch platforms out there with full Layer 3 IPv4 support but IPv6 is curiously omitted - you've got to buy a bigger switch to get support for modern protocols (or an implementation that isn't totally gimped).
- walshemj 9y agoNAT does give you some valuable security features though
- snuxoll 9y agoNAT is still ultimately a kludge for security, a stateful firewall is a much better solution and doesn’t interfere with the assumption that an IP address represents a device and not an entire corporate/home network.